Al McIntosh writes about life on the home front, waiting for the day "when you boys come home."

Al McIntosh writes about life in Luverne on July 4, 1944.

Babe Ciarlo writes home before going overseas, telling his family "the war will be over soon."

Corado "Babe" Ciarlo was with the Fifth Allied Army, somewhere in Italy. His letters home were the most important thing his mother's life.

Babe Ciarlo writes home from basic training.

As a delivery boy for The Sacramento Bee, Burt Wilson followed the war through the maps printed on the front page. He talks about the Battle of the Bulge

The news of D-Day reaches across America

By 1943, six million women had entered the work force, and nearly half of them were working in defense plants.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks to the country following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Susumu Satow and Asako Tokuno recall life in the internment camps.

In Sacramento, soon after Order 9066 was issued, hand-lettered signs went up all over town, saying “Japs must go.”

Katharine Phillips remembers how news of Pearl Harbor came to Mobile.

Al McIntosh writes of personal losses the war brought to those in Luverne.

During the war everything seemed to be rationed or in short supply: gasoline and fuel oil and rubber; bobby pins and zippers and tin foil; shoes and whiskey and chewing gum; butter and coffee and nylons and tomato ketchup and sugar; canned goods and cigarettes and the matches needed to . . .

Robert Kashiwagi was the 23 year-old son of an immigrant farmer when his family was sent to an internment camp.

Color made a difference at the recruiting office and to the general population, but things were changing. On Tuesday morning, May 25, 1943, tensions explode at the Alabama Dry Dock shipyard.

Introduction to Luverne, MN; Sacramento, CA; Waterbury, CT and Mobile, AL.

A member of the 442nd regiment, Tim Tokuno was granted leave to say goodbye to his parents living in an internment camp.

Mass production was an American invention, but during the war it reached levels its inventors could never have imagined.

Cities across the country exploded with work needed to keep the Allies fighting overseas.