Does Anyone Remember The World War II Era?

Question

I am a college student writing an essay on the personal experiences of Americans on the homefront during the World War II era. I chose this topic beacuse I've been a WWII buff since I was younger and have always foung this period in American history fascinating. Can tell about American life dring this tim,e? Thanks very much!

Answer 1

Check out your public or your college video library. There have been some amazing video projects done on this subject. The latest Ken Burns PBS opus has some very good material, but you'd have to watch like 10 hours to get what you want.

Needless to say, every aspect of life was touched by the war. Rationing meant some things Americans got used to were hard to get. Seeing blue stars in windows change to gold ones kept the soldiers in everyone's mind.

Look up the executive order that moved the Japanese AMERICANS to concentration camps.

My dad came home from that war physically unharmed, but nobody was unhurt. He only told me one story about the war, and that was about the day his ship stopped and he went out on the deck to see what was going on. His first sight was the Statue of Liberty. He said that he and 5000 other men stood on deck and unashamedly cried. They were home.

Years later, when he died, I found some photos he had taken when he and his outfit liberated Dachau. Then I understood why he never told stories.

Answer 2

vegetables and the superb ones that have been planted have been those which would be saved over the wintry climate. those may well be root vegetables like potatoes, carrots, turnips, cabbages,onions, pumpkins, you may keep those vegetables in dark cool places and that they might stay good throughout the wintry climate. In those days you may purely eat what replaced into in season however if it replaced into fruit, vegetables or meat. With in actuality the whole worldwide at conflict it replaced into too risky to deliver issues via sea so which you may not assume to get fruit from Hawaii or South u . s . a .. additionally countless the foodstuff replaced into being shipped foreign places to feed the troops so which you only could not purchase issues. You had to strengthen your guy or woman stuff or do devoid of!

Answer 3

As a college student you should not be relying on YA to get you a grade.
But I do have a suggestion. Visit a nearby VA office, home or hospital and ask to interview them there. You will get an A+ on the report and do some real heros some good!

Answer 4

Thank you for your interest. I think I see what you're looking for. Not the battles or timelines that are well-documented, but how it affected those that stayed behind.

My mother, before she met and married my father, fell madly in love with a local boy who was drafted shortly after they met. Their young courtship had to work itself out around the world events swirling around them. They got engaged during one furlough, then married on the next one. A two-day honeymoon, then he shipped off for Europe. Killed outside of Cologne in the last months of the war. They probably had no more than a total of two weeks together. And there are thousands of stories like hers. They wrote sometimes three or four letters a day to each other. I have her journals from those days and they are spellbinding.

Answer 5

dude, you're using the WRONG medium for that. If you want to interview some people on the world war II era, go to an old folks home. I'm sure you'll find HUNDREDS of people who would be MORE than happy to talk to you. Old people LOVE talking about the good ol' days.

Answer 6

My grandmother used to rant about FDR and the hardships of the war often enough but I don'y know if her complaints are what you're looking for.

Answer 7

PBS "THE WAR" almost everynight this week...