Over the course of World War II, Orange, Texas's easternmost city, went from a sleepy town of 7, 500 inhabitants to a bustling industrial city of 60, 000. The bayou community on the Sabine became one of the US's preeminent shipbuilding centres. In They Called It the War Effort, Louis Fairchild details the explosive transformation of his native city in the words of the people who lived through it.