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Children
To children, the war -- through newsreels and Hollywood movies -- seemed a grand adventure. Many took full advantage of the chance to help the war effort by scouring their neighborhoods for rubber, metal, milkweed and any other item requested by the military. They would be the most avid collectors.
To children, the war -- through newsreels and Hollywood movies -- seemed a grand adventure. Many took full advantage of the chance to help the war effort by scouring their neighborhoods for rubber, metal, milkweed and any other item requested by the military. They would be the most avid collectors.
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A soldier from Jersey City, New Jersey offers candy to two French girls. July 4, 1944.
Source: Library of Congress (LOT 7073 no neg#)
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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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Sacramento was a fun place for a kid to grow up.
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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 . . .
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Burt Wilson sits on the steps reading the comics.
Source: Burt Wilson
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Burt Wilson with camera.
Source: Burt Wilson
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Exterior of Burt Wilson's childhood home, Sacramento ca. 1940.
Source: Burt Wilson
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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
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The war meant airplanes to kids.
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Two children deliver metal for the war effort to a Mobile scrap yard.
Source: The University of South Alabama Archives (MN-528 E)
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For maybe the first time in U.S. history, every citizen seemed involved in the war effort.
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Encouragement to buy war bonds created by Lawrence B. Smith, 1942
Source: National Archives (NWDNS-44-PA-97)
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Pvt. Murray Poznac, a signal corps cameraman assigned to the airborne invasion of Holland, with two Dutch children, September 18, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-271536-1)
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A newsboy in Redding, California sells an extra with news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USF34-071204)
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Jim Sherman was born on August 20, 1935 in Luverne. and grew up at 503 North Estey Street. His grandfather, “Doc” Sherman, was a beloved doctor in town, and his father worked in the local bank. As a member of the “home guard,” his father also patrolled the neighborhood at . . .
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Jim Sherman, left, and friends pause from their war games to salute for the camera. July 1942.
Source: Jim Sherman
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Jim Sherman and three others pause from their font yard war games. Sherman mans the machine gun. July 1942.
Source: Jim Sherman
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Jim Sherman's mother reads the paper to Roger, Charles and Jim. She did this every night so they would know the world news. They saved the headlines in a scrapbook from 1939 to 1945.
Source: Jim Sherman
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Film clip taken during Jim Sherman's childhood. Footage is from a famiy home movie. (No sound)
Source: Jim Sherman
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The Sherman family always invited soldiers to dinner over the holidays.
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