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This lecture will outline the upcoming book “World War II and Long Island’s Home Front” written by Christopher Verga and published by History Press. The power point will elaborate on little known facts of Long Island’s role during World War II. Long Island was home to some of the biggest aircraft manufacturing companies, including one which built the most mass-produced plane: the P-47 Thunderbolt. Through mass production, the largest shipyard in the country, the Brooklyn Navy Yard shipped Long Island planes, or missiles out at a record pace. While Long Island out-produced Nazi Germany, Nazi spies were sent to spy on the success of the production, but vigilant citizens protected these secrets by any means necessary. Long Island beat back the Nazi efforts of the Duquesne Spy Ring, and other Nazi sabotage efforts through Operation Pastorius. Further detailed will be how Long Island is unlike any other community which does not need a monument to declare its contributions,- its biggest monument lies across its suburbia landscape which was constructed from the demobilization of World War II.