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Aircraft manufacturing, other defense industries, and the combined activities of the armed forces in San Diego turned the city into the most highly congested military/industrial urban region in the United States during the World War II years. As the population surged, the city's infrastructure found itself taxed to the hilt Chronic problems with the water supply, the housing supply, urban transit -- in fact every aspect of life in San Diego -- all but overwhelmed the community. These difficult conditions challenged the longtime partnership between the city, its businessmen and the federal government, but before the war ended, San Diego had become the metropolis its boosters had envisioned.
San Diego's massive contribution to the Allied war effort in the Pacific was only one aspect of the way that San Diego and its people helped to win the war. No less important was the stellar worldwide role played by Consolidated Aircraft and its premier creation: the B-24 Liberator. |