Pt. 5 - Pinellas by the Decades (1:01)

In this edition, "Distant War Clouds with Clearing Paths for Development Ahead," local historian, Jim Schnur, shows the county as it was from 1942 through 1951. Although tourism languished, frenzied activity covered Pinellas County during World War II. With the Maritime Service Training Station at Bayboro Harbor, Pinellas Army Airfield and the test site for the Roebling Alligator in and around Dunedin, Pinellas contributed to the war effort. Many young recruits of the U.S. Army Air Corps trained in the area, and by the war's end in 1945, Pinellas County's population expanded into areas once occupied by citrus groves.

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