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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was created in 1933 through an Act of Congress, and its legacy continues today, ninety-one years later. TVA became a key defense partner for the War Department and the Chemical Warfare Services during World War II. TVA dams generated an enormous amount of hydroelectric power to manufacture aluminum for aircraft and provided the electricity used to develop components for the atomic bomb at the uranium enrichment facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Additionally, TVA manufactured nitrate for general purpose bombs and phosphorus for incendiary bombs and artillery munitions, as well as a chemical used in producing sarin nerve agent and synthetic rubber. TVA transformed the Tennessee River into a navigable waterway and improved water transportation of war supplies and equipment. TVA helped to feed the military through crop enhancing fertilizers and assisted in the development of a food dehydration process. TVA was so instrumental in helping the United States win WWII, the War Department proclaimed it their ""secret weapon."" This book is a consolidated snapshot of those TVA activities and many others, providing more detail, and trivia, about TVA's war work than is commonly known.

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Charles E. Cabler is a US Air Force Veteran (1962-1968) serving during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. He is a member of the American Legion, Post 11 in Florence, Alabama, and has affiliations with the USAF Police Alumni Association and the Air Force Security Forces Association. As a volunteer adviser for the American Corporate Partners Organization, Charles provides career guidance to military personnel as they transition into civilian life. Using his Air Force experience, Charles has published two military history books: Overhead Espionage: A Historical Snapshot of US Aerial Reconnaissance and Inside Manzano: The Life of a Nuclear Special Weapons Storage Site.Charles retired as a Vice President, CRCM, CRP, after a forty-three-year career in the financial services industry with AmSouth, First Union, Wachovia, and Wells Fargo banks. His background includes regulatory compliance, risk management, and mortgage, commercial, and consumer lending, and incorporates over thirty years' experience in human resource supervision. As a SME, Charles was a continuing education instructor for the San Francisco and Dallas Federal Reserve Bank's CCRS Training Program and provided a banking compliance perspective to the General Accountability Office (GAO) and the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC. Since he retired, Charles has written and published four career development books and continues as a career adviser and a job search and career transition workshop facilitator.

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