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Home Front
The Office of Civilian Defense called upon each American family to become a "fighting unit on the home front."¯ It equated every day tasks with those of a soldier to bring even the housewife into the fight for freedom. They would be asked to do without most of the luxuries and many of the necessities they had begun to take for granted. They got behind the war effort by filling jobs vacated by men needed overseas, writing letters or simply not being wasteful.
The Office of Civilian Defense called upon each American family to become a "fighting unit on the home front."¯ It equated every day tasks with those of a soldier to bring even the housewife into the fight for freedom. They would be asked to do without most of the luxuries and many of the necessities they had begun to take for granted. They got behind the war effort by filling jobs vacated by men needed overseas, writing letters or simply not being wasteful.
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The Rock County, Minnesota honor roll, a monument to the youth who served in the armed forces.
Source: Quentin and Jackie Aanenson
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Quentin and Jackie Aanenson on the boardwalk at Atlantic City during their honeymoon in 1945.
Source: Quentin and Jackie Aanenson
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Quentin and Jackie Aanenson descend the church steps on their wedding day. They exchanged letters regularly while Quentin served overseas piloting a P-47 Thunderbolt.
Source: Quentin and Jackie Aanenson
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In Newport News, Virginia, shipyard workers drink beer at a local bar, 1941.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USF 34-62709-D)
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Al McIntosh was born in 1905 in Park River, North Dakota. His father was a Presbyterian minister and the family moved around a great deal during his childhood. He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1928 and went to work for the Lincoln (Nebraska) Journal, taking photographs as well . . .
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Columnist Al McIntosh of Luverne's Rock County Star Herald at his typewriter.
Source: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Minnesota
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Columnist Al McIntosh of the Star-Herald wearing his glasses examines an article in the newspaper. He sits cross-legged wearing a sweater vest.
Source: Jean McIntosh Vickstrom
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Al McIntosh writes about life on the home front, waiting for the day "when you boys come home."
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Selections from "Selected Chaff: The wartime columns of Al McIntosh."
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Al McIntosh column on a local boy who is missing in action. June 10, 1943.
Source: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Minnesota
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Al McIntosh writes about life in Luverne on July 4, 1944.
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Columnist Al McIntosh of Luverne's Rock County Star Herald.
Source: Jean McIntosh Vickstrom
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Shipyard workers mill about in front of the entrance to the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. in Mobile. Clyde Odom worked here as a foreman.
Source: The University of South Alabama Archives (Addsco 3-416)
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Workers pass through the gate at the Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. in Mobile.
Source: The University of South Alabama Archives (Addsco 3-416)
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The Alhambra Theatre in Sacramento.
Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (2001/ x-03/ 007)
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Barracks at the Granda Relocation Center in Amache, Colorado. Robert Kashiwagi was interred here at the start of the war.
Source: Library of Congress (LOT 10617, vol. 14)
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Portrait of Anne DeVico in 1943. She hailed from Waterbury and wrote often to her future husband, Bob Swift, during the war.
Source: Anne Swift
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Anne DeVico was born June 6, 1925, on Union Street in Waterbury’s North End, one of six children born to Italian immigrants. Her father had come to America from Naples at 16 and worked as a tailor. One of her good friends from the neighborhood was Babe Ciarlo. . .
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Anne DeVico, center, and two friends, in downtown Waterbury. Easter, 1945.
Source: Anne Swift
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Her mother warned her that "nice girls" don't visit New York City.
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