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America's Home Front Heroes

Author : Stacy Enyeart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313377901
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book America's Home Front Heroes written by Stacy Enyeart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new compendium of firsthand reminiscences of life on the American home front during World War II. America's Home Front Heroes: An Oral History of World War II brings together in one rich resource the voices of those whom history often leaves out—the ordinary men, women, and children caught up in an extraordinary time. America's Home Front Heroes is divided into four sections: A Time for Heightened Passion, A Time for Caution and Prejudice, A Time for Flag Waving, and A Time for War Plant Women. The 34 brief oral histories within these sections capture the full diversity of the United States during the war, with contributions coming from men, women, and children of all backgrounds, including Japanese Americans, conscientious objectors, African Americans, housewives, and journalists. A treasure trove for researchers and World War II enthusiasts, this remarkable volume offers members of "the greatest generation" an opportunity to relive their defining era. For those with no direct experience of the period, it's a chance to learn firsthand what it was like living in the United States at a pivotal moment in history.

World War II-- Hometown and Home Front Heroes

Author : Margaret G. Bigger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book World War II-- Hometown and Home Front Heroes written by Margaret G. Bigger and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History from life experience. 77 people who left the Carolinas' Piedmont to join the military, trained in the Piedmont or remained to do something significant for the war effort tell their stories of courage, fear, sacrifice and humor during World War II.

Hometown Heroes

Author : Stein Expressions
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996060219
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Hometown Heroes written by Stein Expressions and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year, 2016, marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of America's entry into World War II. Young men and women from across Michigan and beyond left farms and factories, left their homes and families, to fight and serve. All braved uncertainties. Through firsthand interviews, veterans' photographs, and war journals, Hometown Heroes brings to life the biographical experiences of twenty-four World War II veterans. The majority of veterans featured in this collection were born and raised in Huron and Sanilac Counties while others eventually made their homes in Michigan's Thumb region after the war ended.From serving in support roles to fighting bloody battles on the front lines and witnessing the mass graves and atrocities Hitler imposed to surviving life in a POW camp, World War II veterans made unimaginable contributions and sacrifices. It is this greatest generation that Hometown Heroes strives to honor. May we never forget.

Home Front

Author : Julian M. Pleasants
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063841
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Home Front written by Julian M. Pleasants and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of World War II, North Carolina was one of the poorest states in the Union. More than half of the land was rural. Over one-third of the farms had no electricity; only one in eight had a telephone. Illiteracy and a lack of education resulted in the highest rate of draft rejections of any state. The citizens desperately wanted higher living standards, and the war would soon awaken the Rip Van Winkle state to its fullest potential. Home Front traces the evolution of the people, customs, traditions, and attitudes, arguing that World War II was the most significant event in the history of modern North Carolina. Using oral history interviews, newspaper accounts, and other primary sources, historian Julian Pleasants explores the triumphs, hardships, and emotions of North Carolinians during this critical period. The Training and Selective Service Act of 1940 created over fifty new military bases in the state to train two million troops. Citizens witnessed German submarines sinking merchant vessels off the coast, struggled to understand and cope with rationing regulations, and used 10,000 German POWs as farm and factory laborers. The massive influx of newcomers reinvigorated markets--the timber, mineral, textile, tobacco, and shipbuilding industries boomed, and farmers and other manufacturing firms achieved economic success. Although racial and gender discrimination remained, World War II provided social and economic opportunities for black North Carolinians and for women to fill jobs once limited to men, helping to pave the way for the civil and women's rights movements that followed. The conclusion of World War II found North Carolina drastically different. Families had lost sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters. Despite all the sacrifices and dislocations, the once provincial state looked forward to a modern, diversified, and highly industrialized future.

The Home Front in World War II

Author : Pat Levy
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 9780739860656
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Home Front in World War II written by Pat Levy and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores life in various countries during World War II for the ordinary citizens who contributed to war efforts in factories and other venues and who, in come [sic] cases, experienced the horrors of war firsthand.

Home Front Heroes [3 volumes]

Author : Benjamin F. Shearer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313047057
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Home Front Heroes [3 volumes] written by Benjamin F. Shearer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together 1,000 focused biographies of Americans who affected how the United States made, supported, perceived, and protested its major wars from the Revolution to Gulf War II. Inventors and scientists, nurses and physicians, reformers and clerics, civil rights and labor leaders, financiers and economist, artists and musicians have all been soldiers on the home front. Home Front Heroes brings together brief and focused biographies of 1,000 Americans who affected how the United States made, supported, perceived and protested its major war efforts from the Revolution to Gulf War II. Battlefield victories and defeats are in a very real sense the reflection of the society waging war. Inventors and scientists, social reformers and clerics, civil rights and labor leaders, nurses and physicians, actors and directors, financiers and industrialists, economists and psychologists, artists and musicians, writers and journalists, have all been soldiers on the home front. The biographical entries highlighting the subjects' wartime contributions are arranged alphabetically. Many of the entries also include suggestions for further reading. Thematic indexes make it easy to look up people alphabetically by last name and by war, and other indices list entries under broad categories - Arts and Culture; Business, Industry, and Labor; Nursing and Medicine; Science, Engineering and Inventions - with more detailed occupational background. Entries include: Julia Ward Howe, composer of The Battle Hymn of the Republic; Robert Fulton, inventor of the steam engine and architect of the submarine Nautilus; Martin Brander, maker of Eliot's Saddle Ring Carbine; Robert Parker Parrott, inventor of the Parrott cannon; Novelist and War Correspondent Stephen Crane; Founder of the Army Nurse Corps Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee; Composer John Philip Sousa (Stars and Stripes Forever); Louis M. Terman, who invented the IQ test; Reginald Fessenden, developer of a sonic depth finder; machine-gun inventor Benjamin Hotchkiss; Labor leader John L. Lewis; Comedian and USO stalwart Bob Hope; Dr. Ancel Keys developer of the K-ration; napalm inventor Louis F. Fieser; and many more. The work is fully indexed, and contains an extensive bibliography.

A Heroes History of World War II 1939-1945

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book A Heroes History of World War II 1939-1945 written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Home Front Heroes

Author : Dona Bone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949478099
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Home Front Heroes written by Dona Bone and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dona retired from Bristol-Myers Squibb in 2015, and has become actively involved in the Evansville Wartime Museum, speaking throughout the Tri-State about Evansville's involvement in WWII. This book focuses on the impact women and children had during WWII. Jobs were vacated by men going off to war. Women filled these jobs and also new ones that were created by products that were now in demand by the military. Evansville had the highest percentage increase in population in the U.S. in 1942. Both women and children were hard at work on the home front doing whatever they could to help win the war. This 9" x 12" coffee-table edition has a full-color, hardbound cover and contains hundreds of photographs and historical highlights that illustrates the involvement of women and children during WWII, within 144 pages.

Our Hometown Heroes

Author : Linda Awe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Our Hometown Heroes written by Linda Awe and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Home Front

Author : Brenda Williams
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 9781403461940
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Home Front written by Brenda Williams and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to live on the home front during wartime? Even though these individuals were far from the fighting, they played an important role in how the battles were fought. Find out more in this fascinating title.

Home Front Heroes

Author : Jon Blake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749663179
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Home Front Heroes written by Jon Blake and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three adventures about daily life in World War Two.

V for Victory

Author : Stan Cohen
Publisher : Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book V for Victory written by Stan Cohen and published by Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of the Amerian efforts to provide equipment for World War II and tells of the situation in America at the time.

Women on the US Home Front

Author : Kari A. Cornell
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1629697818
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Women on the US Home Front written by Kari A. Cornell and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the role of women on the US home front during World War II, focusing on the factory workers, volunteers, and service members who helped the Allies win the war. Compelling narrative text and well-chosen historical photographs and primary sources make this book perfect for report writing. Features include a glossary, a selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Home Town Heroes

Author : Jennifer Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Home Town Heroes written by Jennifer Walker and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

World War II

Author : Phyllis Raybin Emert
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613193177
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book World War II written by Phyllis Raybin Emert and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When World War I broke out, women found a new place in the work force as families pulled togehter to economize through rationing food, tires, gasoline, silk and more. Families grew their own food in victory gardens and children saved money to invest in war bonds. Sadly in fear, Japanese Americans were rounded up and impounded in internment camps for the duration of the war. Blacks, struggling to overcome prejudice were accepted into the Marines and Coast Guard for the first time.

World War II Heroes

Author : Alan Zullo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439934053
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book World War II Heroes written by Alan Zullo and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world was saved by real-life heroes. You will never forget their incredible true stories. [back cover].

Children of the World War II Home Front

Author : Sylvia Whitman
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781575054841
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Children of the World War II Home Front written by Sylvia Whitman and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the experiences of children living in the United States during World War II, including writing V-mail to soldiers, participating in air raid drills, planting Victory Gardens, buying stamps for war bonds, and gathering cooking grease and scrap metal for making bombs.