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On the Anzio front, Waterbury's Babe Ciarlo wrote home about pork chops, never the fighting.
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Between 50 and 60 million people died in World War II. This is how The War begins.
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A telegram, a father's walk home and a halted dance: Luverne mourns a Marine killed on Saipan.
9:56
May 25, 1943, white workers riot after 12 Black workers are promoted to welder in Mobile, Alabama.
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"We loved every single bite." Ray Leopold remembers his chocolate-covered roast beef.
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For a Minneapolis teenager in 1941, enlisting was a chance to become someone new.
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From sugar to nylons to gasoline, Americans rationed nearly everything to supply the war effort.
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Future U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye watched Japanese planes streak overhead on Dec. 7, 1941.
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Mobile, Sacramento, Waterbury and Luverne: four American towns on the eve of World War II.
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Black Americans answered the call to serve in WWII, only to face a strictly segregated military.
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Executive Order 9066 forced more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry from their homes.
