When the United States had entered World War II on December 8, 1941, some extraordinary changes began to take place in communities all over the nation. For example, on March 3, 1942 Kenneth K. Bechtel of the Bechtel Corporation, working with Marin County residents Harry Allen, Ted Panton, and Fred Boole, selected a stretch of mudflats on the shores of Richardson Bay to build a shipyard. The Marinship Corporation, was formed to take advantage of contracts from the U. S. Maritime Commission to bui… (More on Marinship)