And we did not realize that, of course, that we were going to war with Japan soon. However, in San Diego, my primary objective of selecting San Diego State College as the place to go to college was the presence of the San Diego Zoo. And what had happened, what kept occurring in the city of San Diego, there were four big aircraft companies building airplanes. They built the Spirit of St. Louis that Colonel Lindberg flew across the Atlantic in ’27, even though it’s named the Spirit of St. Louis, because the funding for it came from financiers in St. Louis, it was built in San Diego. And in San Diego, there was this huge transformation just at the time I began college there in ’40. There were more people working in consolidated aircraft, building B-24 bombers, and Catalina’s flying boats to observe submarines. More people working in that one aircraft factory Within the first year after I started college in ’40, ’41, then lived in the entire city limits of San Diego. San Diego just mushroomed in that time, even though the War of Pearl Harbor was a year and a half away, the war effort was extreme.
