{"id":5477,"date":"2025-08-19T11:43:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/outofthestacks\/?p=5477"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:43:34","slug":"featured-book-display-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/outofthestacks\/2025\/08\/19\/featured-book-display-world-war-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Book Display: World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Robyn Moore, Reference Librarian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Army Air Corps intelligence school for officers held at DPS Headquarters, Camp Mabry, Colonel L.A. Dayton, School Number Three, commanding, February 1943. \u00a0Texas Department of Public Safety public relations photographs,1983\/112 M-131-10. View in the TDA<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Texas played a significant role in the United States\u2019 involvement in World War II. While the war caused great upheaval, it also opened up opportunities for various population groups. Women could train as pilots, for instance. Read their first hand stories in Women pilots of World War II<\/a>. In addition, World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights<\/a> illuminates the ways Mexican Americans showed up to help the war effort and simultaneously push for their rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides uniquely Texan stories, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) holds government documents and stories from the rest of the country and overseas battlefields during that time. For example, you can watch the documentary France ’44: The Encirclement at Nancy<\/a> which discusses the XII Corps\u2019 retaking of the French city of Nancy, as well as commentary describing current military tactics. Or, read Hospital at War: the 95th Evacuation Hospital in World War II<\/a> to learn more about the challenges of evacuation hospitals, where soldiers were taken who were injured on the front before they could make the journey to a safe city for treatment. Many more titles about World War II are available at TSLAC, with a curated selection currently on display in the Reference Reading Room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more information about access to the titles on display, please contact TSLAC reference services at ref@tsl.texas.gov<\/a> or call 512-436-5455.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title\/Catalog link<\/strong><\/td>Call number<\/strong><\/td>Collection<\/strong><\/td>Available online<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas : Mexican workers and job politics during World War II<\/a><\/td>331.62 Z148c<\/td>Texana<\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Origin of names of army and air Corps posts, camps and stations in World War II in Texas<\/a><\/td>355.7 AL54o<\/td>Texana<\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
The Texas 36th Division : a history<\/a><\/td>356.113 B730t<\/td>Texana<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Women pilots of World War II<\/a><\/td>940.54 C675w<\/td>Texana<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
A pictorial history of the 36th “Texas” Infantry Division<\/a><\/td>940.541273 UN3p OVER-T<\/td>Texana<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Two Texans, two world wars<\/a><\/td>940.48173 T930<\/td>Texana<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Men and women in the armed forces from Rusk County<\/a><\/td>940.53 Am35r<\/td>Texana<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
1941 : Texas goes to war<\/a><\/td>940.53 N622<\/td>Texana<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Texas at war :\u00a0 [radio scripts]<\/a><\/td>940.53 T3t V.2<\/td>Texana<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Foo, A Japanese-American prisoner of the Rising Sun\u00a0<\/a><\/td>940.5421 W125<\/td>Texana<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
From Texas to Rome<\/a><\/td>940.5421 W152<\/td>Texana<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Texas women in World War II<\/a><\/td>940.54 W427t<\/td>Texana<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
We were going to win, or die there : with the Marines at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan<\/a><\/td>Z N745.8 EL74we<\/td>TXD<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Hospital at war : the 95th Evacuation Hospital in World War II 1st ed.<\/a><\/td>Z TA475.8 F913HO<\/td>TXD<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Blood on German snow : an African American artilleryman in World War II and beyond<\/a><\/td>Z TA 475.8 OW2BL<\/td>TXD<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Texas and Texans in World War II : 1941-1945<\/a><\/td>Z TA475.8 T312te<\/td>TXD<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
East of the storm : outrunning the Holocaust in Russia<\/a><\/td>Z TT422.8 EA77 1999<\/td>TXD<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Latina\/os and World War II<\/a><\/td>Z UA380.8 L349wo<\/td>TXD<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
World War II and Mexican American civil rights 1st ed.<\/a><\/td>Z UA380.8 W893WA<\/td>TXD<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Builders and fighters : U.S. Army Engineers in World War II<\/a><\/td>D 103.2:B 86\/2<\/td>USD<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
France ’44: the encirclement at Nancy<\/a><\/td>D 110.2:F 84<\/td>USD<\/td>Yes<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
The Navy’s first enlisted women : patriotic pioneers<\/a><\/td>D 221.21:W 88<\/td>USD<\/td>Yes<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Rosie the Riveter\/WWII Home Front National Historical Park, California<\/a><\/td>I 29.21:R 73<\/td>USD<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Combat connected naval casualties, World War II Vol. 1<\/a><\/td>N 1.34\/2:1<\/td>USD<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
Combat connected naval casualties, World War II Vol. 2<\/a><\/td>N 1.34\/2:2<\/td>USD<\/td> <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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