The Alhambra Theatre in Sacramento.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (2001/ x-03/ 007)

Burt Wilson was born January 24, 1933 and grew up in a well to do neighborhood in Sacramento. His father was an engineer at the Luppen and Hawley Plumbing Company. Wilson’s mother and maternal grandparents were German and he had cousins and aunts and uncles in Germany and sent them . . .

Burt Wilson sits on the steps reading the comics.

Source: Burt Wilson

Burt Wilson with camera.

Source: Burt Wilson

Exterior of Burt Wilson's childhood home, Sacramento ca. 1940.

Source: Burt Wilson

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 war meant airplanes to kids.

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)

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

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

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

Japanese-American evacuees, under the watchful eye of U.S. soldiers, wait outside trains at Santa Anita Assembly Center. April 5, 1942.

Source: National Archives (WC-0780)

Under the watchful eye of the U.S. Army, Japanese-Americans are evacuated from Salinas, California. May 1942.

Source: Library of Congress (LC-USF34-072513-D)

A notice posted at 9th and K Streets in Sacramento announces evacuation orders for all Japanese-Americans. May 8, 1942.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (85-24-1864)

Aerial of downtown Sacramento, including the Capitol building, ca. 1940.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (83-01-111)

A December 19, 1944 Sacramento Bee headline reads: "Germans Slash 20 Miles Into Belgium; Yanks Cross Roer."

Source: The Sacramento Bee

A Sacramento Bee headline announces German surrender, May 7, 1945.

Source: The Sacramento Bee

A Sacramento Bee headline on August 15, 1945 reads: "Japanese War Ends."? "M'Arthur is to rule, accept capitulation."?

Source: The Sacramento Bee

Outside Kress five and dime in Sacramento, pedestrians and cars crowd the street. 1945

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (2001-x-03-125)

Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, ca. 1940.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (83/01/7288)

A boy uses his bike to deliver scraps of rubber to a Sacramento salvage site, 1942.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (83-01-12889)