Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
A story from Eloise Kupec.
I grew up during the Depression in the little town of Scott, Arkansas. It was a farming community that had a post office, a cotton gin, a gas station, and a general store. The general store is now one of the multi-star restaurants in the mid-west.
When ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The other day, Ed told me about his mom, Ida L. Knopf. During World War II, she worked for Grumman in West Trenton, where the Navy fighter plane, the Hellcat, was manufactured. At first she was a riveter working the 4 to 12 shift, but when they learned she could ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Shortly after Sally had completed two years of college, the war broke out and many lives were changed. Sally’s brother went into the Army and served under General Patton. Among her brother's responsibilities was to lead a group of soldiers into a concentration camp, where they found no survivors.
Sally decided to leave ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
To continue the housing problem just one more day, I’ll mention some of the post-war difficulties as noted in my book, We Knew We Were at War: Women Remember World War II. As the soldiers and sailors came home, married, and established families, the housing crunch was severe.
Jean tells us ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Finding houses, apartments, rooms, and housing of any kind was tight during the war years. Harriet had just joined the WAAC. She, along with four new friends, was assigned to the Recruiting and Induction Center, where they were expected to recruit many new women to the WAAC. She relates the problem ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Here is a neighbor’s story of her life in West Philadelphia during World War II.
My father died in the Philadelphia Naval Hospital in 1939 after having had cancer for two years. I was just 12. He had been in the Army during World War I in charge of bringing American ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
The following is from Lillian’s story in my book, We Knew We Knew We Were at War: Women Remember World War II. She carried these words in her wallet for over sixty years.
During the war, a group of soldiers arrived at a small village in France. The chaplain read a ...
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