For the last two years of WWII, the small Sacramento Valley community of Red Bluff, California, was transformed by the presence of the Naval Air Transport Command Ferry Service unit, FSU-9. Red Bluff became a stopping point for planes being ferried from the East Coast to the Pacific with a regular contingent of naval aviators passing through and a support staff stationed there.
Many of the men of FSU-9 settled in Red Bluff and other Northern California towns after the war and "The Red Bluff Navy" relates the many ways they contributed to their new communities.
The arrival of FSU-9 has had unexpected and profound effects on this community for the last fifty-five years. This book tells that story.
"The Red Bluff Navy" won the 1998 Sacramento Publishers Association - Best History Award.
This is a Large Print Edition
