Historian Explores Wartime Life in San Diego

KPBS | By KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published February 12, 2007 at 3:30 PM PST

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

What was San Diego like during World War II? Author and history buff Roger Conlee explores what it was like to live in San Diego after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

San Diego feels very close to the war in Iraq because so many of the Marines fighting there are deployed from Camp Pendleton. Yet we see few signs of wartime here in Southern California. No air raid sirens, no bomb shelters, no rationing of food or gasoline – very unlike the state of alert that San Diego experienced after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Guests:

Roger Conlee , history buff and author of "Counterclockwise".

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