Title: The first strange place
Description: Hundreds of thousands of men and women went to Hawaii during World War II expecting a Hollywood image of "paradise." What they found was radically different : a complex crucible in which diverse elements--social, racial, sexual--were mingled and transmuted in the heat and strain of war.
Subjects: Race relations, Social aspects of World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945, Social conditions, Women, Social aspects
Places: Hawaii