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 ...

World War II rationing points "OPA' stands for Office of Price Administration, a federal office created by an act of Congress. The points were distributed as change when turning in a coupon for ...

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 ...

Clark County families couldn’t escape the Office of Price Administration during World War II. By the winter of 1942, American factories had turned toward manufacturing ammunition, ships and tanks. Eve ...

At the dawn of the 1940s, much of the world was already at war. Less than two years later, the United States would be drawn into the conflict.

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 ...