Dolores Silva and Norman Greenslate.

Source: Dolores Greenslate

Dolores Silva was born in Sacramento in 1924, and grew up in a neighborhood of mostly Portuguese and Japanese families. She began dating Norman Greenslate while they were still in high school, and she wrote to him every day he was fighting in Europe, first as an engineer and then . . .

During the Battle of the Bulge, Norman Greenslate sits with his rifle in hand and smiles despite the cold snow. He sent this picture home to his future wife, Dolores Silva.

Source: Dolores Greenslate

A woman listens to the radio in her boardinghouse room. January 1943. For those back home, the radio proved the best source for news on the war.

Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3- 038331-E)

Signing up for sugar and food rationing in Taos, New Mexico. February 1943.

Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3-019115-C)