Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II: A Victory for American Forest Products and Allied Aviation

Wisconsin's trees heard "Timber " during World War II, as the forest products industry of the Badger State played a key role in the Allied aerial campaign. It was Wisconsin that provided the material for the De Havilland Mosquito, known as the "Timber Terror," while the CG-4A battle-ready gliders, cloaked in stealthy silence, carried the 82nd and 101st Airborne into fierce fighting throughout Europe and the Pacific. Sara Witter Connor follows a forgotten thread of the American war effort, celebrating the factory workers, lumberjacks, pilots and innovative thinkers of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory who helped win a world war with paper, wood and glue.
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Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II: A Victory for American Forest Products and Allied Aviation

Wisconsin's trees heard "Timber " during World War II, as the forest products industry of the Badger State played a key role in the Allied aerial campaign. It was Wisconsin that provided the material for the De Havilland Mosquito, known as the "Timber Terror," while the CG-4A battle-ready gliders, cloaked in stealthy silence, carried the 82nd and 101st Airborne into fierce fighting throughout Europe and the Pacific. Sara Witter Connor follows a forgotten thread of the American war effort, celebrating the factory workers, lumberjacks, pilots and innovative thinkers of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory who helped win a world war with paper, wood and glue.
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Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II: A Victory for American Forest Products and Allied Aviation

Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II: A Victory for American Forest Products and Allied Aviation

by Sara Witter Connor
Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II: A Victory for American Forest Products and Allied Aviation

Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II: A Victory for American Forest Products and Allied Aviation

by Sara Witter Connor

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Wisconsin's trees heard "Timber " during World War II, as the forest products industry of the Badger State played a key role in the Allied aerial campaign. It was Wisconsin that provided the material for the De Havilland Mosquito, known as the "Timber Terror," while the CG-4A battle-ready gliders, cloaked in stealthy silence, carried the 82nd and 101st Airborne into fierce fighting throughout Europe and the Pacific. Sara Witter Connor follows a forgotten thread of the American war effort, celebrating the factory workers, lumberjacks, pilots and innovative thinkers of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory who helped win a world war with paper, wood and glue.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781626193505
Publisher: The History Press
Publication date: 02/18/2014
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author


Sara Connor is a longtime board member and president of the Forest History Association of Wisconsin, and has also served on the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Forestry Hall of Fame and Camp 5 Museum Foundation. Connor curated the nationally traveling Wisconsin's Flying trees: Wisconsin Plywood Industry's Contribution to WWII exhibit, which was displayed to over 175, 000 viewers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 5

1 War! 7

2 The Wisconsin Homefront 21

3 Ships 52

4 Wisconsin "Wood Flies to War" 63

5 "Wisconsin's Flying Trees": The British Connection 93

6 The "Spruce Goose," or Was It Wisconsin Yellow Birch? 113

7 'Teaching Wood to Fight": U.S. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison 124

8 The German Connection: A Sticky Situation 146

9 Trade Associations 157

10 War Contracts and the Wisconsin Lumber Industry 163

11 Tires, Equipment and Lumber Shortages 186

12 Conclusion 203

Appendix I Connor Lumber and Land Company: World War II Servicemen, Laona, Wisconsin 219

Appendix II Consoweld Corporation Employees 223

Appendix III CM. Christiansen Company Employees and Those Who Served during World War II 225

Notes 229

Bibliography 249

Index 275

About the Author 288

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