Today's article is from The Evening Times December 8th 1941 edition.....it is the day after Pearl Harbor. How hard it must have been for the families waiting to here that their loved ones were safe from the attack. Three industries started on sabotage measures.....Lehigh Valley Railroad for transportation, Ingersoll Rand for machining tools, and Belle Knitting Corporation for making shirts for the Navy. Big changes would come to the valley after that fateful day. #WorldWar2 #

We have many scrapbooks in our collection....one of our projects for this year is to have them all scanned and available on our web page....our goal is to have them with word identification so you can type in a family member or subject matter and it will open up to that page.....your donations will help us accomplish this goal....please consider being a member or donating to the museum.. we receive no state or federal funding ...visit our web page www.tiogapointmuseum.org We

I love finding letters from the past in our archives.....it gives us a glimpse into history. Lt. Comdr. C. V. Chamberlain was stationed in the Marianas Islands his letter was written on December 4th, 1944. He was working 7 days a week and hadn't heard from home for 3 months... A good reminder of the sacrifices our veterans make for us from the past and the present... Eight superstructure hangars, 130 by 160 feet each, and ten 160-by-190-foot repair hangars were erected for th