The Stamford Historical Society Presents

Pride and Patriotism: Stamford’s Role in World War II
Online Edition

The Homefront

Introduction

When the Second World War started, Stamford was a community of 60,000 people from a variety of different backgrounds and ethnicities. Stamford itself had become a manufacturing community dominated by the major firms of Yale & Towne, Pitney-Bowes, Machlett Laboratories, American Cyanamid, and Luders Marine Construction, to mention but a few. While, with the coming of the war, some 10,000 Stamfordites were enlisted in various branches of service, others worked on the homefront to support the war. Local firms converted their factory works for the production of implements, machines, and ships needed for the war effort. Civil Defense was re-instituted, and the general public was asked for and answered the call to sacrifice.

More text to come

Luders (internet links)

Yale & Towne

Pitney-Bowes

Machlett Laboratories