ARKANSAS SIGHTSEEING: Bauxite dug in for its role in defeating Nazi Germany

Bauxite Historical Association Museum occupies the former community center. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Jack Schnedler)
Bauxite Historical Association Museum occupies the former community center. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Jack Schnedler)


BAUXITE -- This is now a placid Saline County community, population around 600. But Bauxite bustled with as many as 7,000 workers and their families while playing a key role from 1942 to 1945 in the defeat of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan.

Those

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