When the U.S. entered World War II in December 1941, virtually every American became part of the war effort in some way. More than 16 million Americans served in the military, millions of civilians ...
The official end of the war in Europe on V-E Day May 7, 1945 did not mean the end of rationing. America and its allies had been rationing many items during World War II. The aim of rationing was to ...
To the relief of many, cigarettes and whiskey weren’t subject to rationing during World War II. But practically everything else was. Each man, woman and child in the United States required ration ...