INDEPENDENCE — Nearly 70 years after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor jolted the United States into war, thousands of Kansas City workers still report for duty at two defense plants built for World War II.
World War II-era defense plants in Missouri still rev up economy
Friday, December 10, 2010 | 1:27 p.m. CST
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