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On The Home Front

Lesson Plans & Activity: 1925-1949: On The Home Front - Grade Level [4-12]

The North Platte Canteen made a big impression on those troops travelling to war. Dorothy Van Buskirk (left) and Dorothy Loncar greet a sailor on his way through the North Platte Union Pacific station.
From the 1980 NET Television program Legacies of World War II

Within days of the declaration of war, troops began to move across the country, on their way to the front lines. In many ... Read more