Steven S. Minniear, a local historian and researcher, collected, sorted, and assembled photographs and information from sources throughout the San Francisco Bay area and around the country in order to bring to light the forgotten story of people and places that figured into the tremendous effort to win the war. Georgean Vonheeder-Leopold, Dublin's historian, helped identify images and texts of the area's small-town and rural way of life, which was dramatically and forever changed by World War II.