FLORIDA GUARD AND STATE GUARD THE SECOND WORLD WAR





Law was extended, volunteers came forward in much cial life. It controlled everything from rationing to man-
larger numbers. America was closer to war. closer than power registration, public information, agriculture.
anyone knew. The initial one-vear term of federal ser- labor, natural resources, salvage of useable materials,
vice for the regular Florida National Guard was ex- construction, road use, and all public health. fire. and
tended, indefinitely as it turned out. There was an police services. Also. a Civilian Defense and Civilian
obvious need for a well established Florida Defense Service Corps were established. Any public service
Force for a longer period of time than had been available came under one or another of these corps. The
anticipated. Civilian Defense Corps was not a military formation.
 And then there was Pearl Harbor. America orga- Actually, it was far more closely simiiiar to the Civil
nized for total war. So did Florida. A state Defense Defense organization of the post-war nuclear age. The
Council was established, chaired by the governor, Defense Corps was concerned primarily with action ser-
through which various committees and directories vice: police, fire, air raid warning, and enforcing the
planned and coordinated Florida's war effort. And it black-out and dim-out regulations along Florida's
was a total effort. The Defense Council was responsible seaboard.
for virtually every phase of Florida's economic and so- The Florida Defense Force. renamed the Florida






























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