Found: War ration books filled with stamps for food, sugar and other commodities meted out to the nation’s Greatest Generation during World War II. Someone found the bits of history at South Lyon’s ...
The problems in the Middle East and American universities etc. produced a copy in the mail from an unidentified source of the above document used during World War II (1941-1945) that the older ...
Bob Greene’s “Coronavirus and the Ration Book” (op-ed, March 28) about the ration books issued during World War II brought back many memories to me. My father, Joseph Scuderi, had an Italian grocery ...
Following Japan’s bombing of the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 and the United States’ resulting entry into the second World War, American at home knew there would ...
Toward the end of WWII, late 1944 or early 1945, I was in downtown Decatur shopping with my mother, Margaret, when I noticed my mother was getting very excited. She had spotted a line of about 20 ...
Trick-or-treaters during World War II faced a grave threat to their Halloween fun. But like the rest of the country, they made do for victory.
It was World War II and keeping a look out for enemy planes was one of the jobs Elaine Clark, who grew up in Garibaldi, remembers. Poised in a 'shack' each person assigned to the look out was given a ...
My Grandma Alice was the baker in our family, the creator of simple cakes produced in a now-dented metal pan I still have somewhere. No layers, thanks. I attributed the simplicity to the thrifty ...