Author: Danielle Oser

  • Lowered Draft Age Coming

    In a “radio fireside chat” from of the White House, President Roosevelt tells the nation that the draft age will have to be lowered from 20 to 18 years of age. He goes on to inform America that Allied commanders have agreed on opening “new offensives against Germany and Japan” and that “we must now…

  • Insignia Change Affect Everyone Wearing Bars

    Source: “Insignia Change Affect Everyone Wearing Bars.” The Kansas City Times, 28 Aug. 1942, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-times/135996889/

  • Diary: Saturday, August 29, 1942

    Saturday, August 29, 1942Dear Diary, Really a beautiful place. Here we sit here on a high windy hill far away from everything and everyone. We have a shuttle bus here, an Army truck, it”™s a first cousin to a wagon, same difference, only the truck has a motor. It shook all the fillings out of…

  • Official Record: Uniform

    Class N allotment is used to pay for insurance premiums and repay insurance loans.

  • TIME CAPSULE

    In some places an additional fabric was needed to make blackout curtains. Once up, the heavy, dark curtains had a mournful effect, but (as with other problems), the media offered advice. One writer suggested that “funereal blackout curtains ”¦ will take on life with the addition of greenery. You might ”¦ do something giddy like…

  • Roosevelt Lauds Roles In Anniversary Note

    Source: “Roosevelt Lauds Roles In Anniversary Note.” Democrat and Chronicle, 1 Sept. 1942, p. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/article/democrat-and-chronicle/137958872/

  • Voices of Household Folks

    Source: “Voices of Household Folks [What Should I Tell My Children About War?].” The Household Magazine, Sept. 1942, p. 13.

  • Trends in Hospital Nursing Service

    Source: Hamilton, James A. “Trends in Hospital Nursing Service.” The American Journal of Nursing, Sept. 1942, pp. 1034”“1040. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3415621

  • Doubling Our Efforts

    Source: Cutler, Elliott C. “Doubling Our Efforts.” The American Journal of Nursing, Sept. 1942, p. 993. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3415600?origin=JSTOR-pdf