WW2 Homefront

It was simply called evacuation.

A common food eaten by Anzac's was Billy Beef

There were no "popular" songs protesting World War II. Probably a few fringe songs like the Woodie Guthries of the world but nothing that you would hear on the radio. There were songs that talked about the losses, the loneliness, and the deaths but nothing protesting the war.

Because everything was still in short supply and there was a major shortage of money. As different commodities started to become available, they gradually came off ration. Rationing didn't finally end in the UK until 1954.

The B17F named "Memphis Belle" was "repossesed" by the US Air Force some 3 or 4 years ago because they did not think Memphis was taking care of it. It is undergoing compete restoration which will take 8 years. I think it is at Wright-Patterson AFB, the home of the US Air Force Museum, but parts of it may be scattered to various contractors. For example, before the Air Force took it away, the brakes and tires were being restored at Honeywell Maintenance and Repair Facility at Memphis.

Geraldine Siebolds (m. 25-Jul-1925, div. 1942)(remarried, m. 10-Mar-1943, until his death)

=The evacuees lived with other people they didn't know in the countryside, basicly because they were young kids and couldn't live with their parents in the war. I am only a child but I think some brothers and sisters got split up.=

So many men were away from home that women were able to take over many of the jobs left vacant. The wives of service men moved in with relatives. Doors or windows of homes had stars posted to show how many service men were from that family. Materials that were needed for the war effort were used for the war,so those items were very scarce for the people at home. For example, car tires were bald or had very little tread. Alot of people planted gardens called "victory gardens".Alot of effort went in to volunteer work aimed at helping troops such as USO work, rolling and packing bandages,and writing letters. Family members often went for long periods of time not knowing where family members were or if they were allright.

The US originally obtained Guam when it was ceded to them by Spain after the Spanish/American war in 1898.

Guam was invaded by Japan on December 8 1941 and recaptured on July 21 1944.

his sister in law vivienne Scott and her husband Lawrence melville had a son L Scott Melville who became an attorney and then a judge in Connecticut. the Scott sisters (3)were founding members of the black social organization the "gay northeasterners" in the 1920's of 30's which is still in existence. the word gay was dropped in the 1970"s.

The role of Women in the past was to watch over the house and take care of the children. Then such things as World War I occurred and women then began to work outside of the house. Most of the women who began working enjoyed it, causing them to join the work force, but they were still obliged to keep the house clean and swept and take care the the children.

A draft, more formally known as a conscription, is when the United States Armed Forces begins requiring that people enlist. World War 2 was an extensive war and being that the military needed more manpower to fight it, the US Government began drafting young men.

For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States

A Anderson shelter has books, drinks, games mabie nitting and a gas mask.

the mens fashion during the ww2 times were usually just a regular looking suit or army uniform
Men wore a v - necked sweater vests or knitted waistcoasts for special occasions

I don't know what other kids did, but my twin brother and I collected newspapers for paper drives at school and planted a Victory Garden. We also collect old rubber tires and tin cans for the scrap drives. Adding to the previous comments. Children could go to the Post Office and get a booklet (I still have mine). You then would buy a 10-cent stamp to put into the book. (For a child that was a lot of money). Eventually you would fill the book with 10-cent stamps. When that happened you turned in the booklet, and were given a "War Bond," the money was a loan to the government to help fight the war. (I never filled my book.) We were given (at school) packages of vegetable seeds. Our job was to go out and sell the seeds to our neighbors. (I was very un-successful). I don't know where the money was suppose to go, perhaps the war. The purpose of the seeds was to encourage people to grow some of their own food. (Few of my neighbors had good enough soil, or enough room to have a garden.) My father had been a farmer as a child, so during the war he rented some land, and we grew a wide variety of vegetables, which my mother preserved for use in the Winter. I helped cultivate the land with a shovel, so in a small way I was helping the "War Effort." Children also "made do" with their shoes. When we wore holes in the soles we would put cardboard inside the shoe for a while till the hole became too large. Our family also took care of their clothes, trying to make them last. Instead of buying toys (which were either not common, or not worth having) I made my own (which, in a way helped the war effort). I saved everything, if I found a bent nail, I would take it home and hammer it straight. I picked up washers, nuts and bolts, used wooden boxes for toys used by grocery stores to ship food. I got into the habit of saving everything and still do, it is for me a habit impossible to break. "Making do" was common in a variety of ways, and this too helped the War Effort. Hope I didn't get carried away. John

Quite a bit they did alot of the loading of supplies of munitions and other war materials in the US. Also they served in large numbers in labouring jobs in the armed forces, late in the war they also joined the combat forces .

because the british people didn't want the germansto bomb england so they mad sure there was no light so the germans just though that it was still sea and nothing was really there.

the land girls took over the mens job on the farm or other diffrent kinds of jobs while they were out fighting in WAR to safe all the countrys lifes the land girls got up to all kinds of truble without anyone noing like pulling new yanks (the american ) when going to dances or having to bribe people to giving them things but that was nothing like the black market at all ...... the land girls sturrugled with the work and couldnt wait for the soilders to arrive back

The intent was always to reach a safer environment, in most cases that meant a small town devoid of military value, or better still a farm in the countryside. The problem was that there were only so many farms in tranquil commuities to escape to.

As an aside did your ever hear about the man that foresaw WWII and in an attempt to escape the consequences, he sold his Iowa farm and moved to a tiny Pacific Island that poised no threat. It was called Iwo Jima. (An Urban Legend that Paul Harvey reported on).

Gila River and Poston had War Relocation Centers, Leupp had a Citizen Isolation Center for what were called problem inmates, Florence had an Army Facility where German, Italian and Japanese of high risk internees were held, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons used Catalina and Camp Florence for actual convicted criminals. In addition temporary assembly Centers were located at Parker Dam, Cove Creek and Mayer.

The wore leather shoes like the rest of the world. Some did have some of the wood clogs from the Netherlands though. The ones who worked on boats however wore deck shoes. Farmers wore boots and so did the soldiers.

Well, it depends on which part of Poland, considering it did not actually exist as a nation directly prior to World War I, with parts of modern day Poland being part of the countries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia. Conditions in those parts could generally be considered similar to conditions in the rest of the country to which they were a part of.

Back then most of the clothes for families were made by the family mom.Here is a image of the 1900s clothing.

some people wore things like dresses that were really neat and looked ok i guess oh and go ligon middle school.

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During World War II, many supplies that we take for granted were in very short supply, mostly because they were needed by the military. Gasoline, tires, butter, and many other goods were not readily available. As a means of promoting "fairness" in the distribution of scarce supplies, a ration card system was imposed.

Thus, ration cards are cards or stamps that allowed the government to ration out food and supplies to that card or stamp holder when they were in short supply.

US designer, John Moses Browning, designed the current .50 caliber machine gun, as well as the .30 caliber m.g. in WW1 (1917). Those m.g.'s were used in WW2. The only new types of m.g.'s were the submachine guns that were developed in the 1920's (Thompson's .45 submachine-gun), and the M-3 Grease Gun. Sub machine guns fired PISTOL ammo. The US used the same machine guns in WW1 (foreign machine guns as well as Browning's weapons), WW2, and the Korean War (which used WW2 equipment since there was only a 5 year time gap between the two wars). The Vietnam War saw the US Army's first use of new machine guns, such as the M-60 machine gun and the M-16 Assault Rifle, which was the ONE and ONLY time that the average US Rifleman (Grunt) was armed with a fully automatic rifle for general issue (standard issue). After the Viet War, the M-16's were converted to short round bursts (no more rock 'n roll-fully automatic fire).