WWII in America

"Rosie the Riveter" Inspiration Has Died

May 11, 2021 · Chris

As we watch the number of Pearl Harbor survivors dwindle, we also bid farewell to other icons of the Second World War. The latest World War II hero to pass away wasn’t a member of the Armed Forces that fought in Europe or the Pacific. On the contrary, she became a beloved symbol of many […]

The America First Committee and Pearl Harbor

February 15, 2020 · Chris

On September 4, 1940, as tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan mounted, the America First Committee was formed. Led by Yale Law student R. Douglas Stuart, Jr., future US president Gerald Ford, future Peace Corps. Director Sargent Shriver, and future United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, the America First Committee […]

Wartime Blackouts: From Drills to Reality

November 20, 2018 ·

Relations between the United States and Japan were quickly deteriorating. The rulers of Japan wanted to occupy more and more of China and Southeast Asia. The United States sought to prevent this expansion, but to do so meant taking actions that Japan would find unacceptably intrusive. It was no secret that Japan was displeased with […]

The Secret Japanese Plan for Biological Warfare

October 13, 2018 ·

As World War II started to draw to its inevitable conclusion, the Japanese became increasingly desperate. Japan, which had had been suffering crippling defeats, wasn't about to go down without causing as much damage to their enemies as they could. That included making plans for a biological warfare attack that would have devastated the west […]

The Fate of the Captured Midget Submarine HA. 19

September 07, 2018 ·

In the early morning hours of December 7, 1941, before the Imperial Japanese Navy’s warplanes reached Pearl Harbor, another group of vessels was moving toward the Oahu naval base. One of these was the ill-fated HA. 19, a Type A Ko-hyoteki-class midget submarine. Piloted by a crew of two, Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki and Chief Warrant Officer […]

Reactions to Pearl Harbor from the Man on the Street

August 11, 2018 ·

All across the United States, reactions to Pearl Harbor varied from one individual to the next. There were those terrified by it and worried that it foreshadowed a possible attack on the mainland. Some wondered whether the United States had known about the attack before it happened, or if Germany had had a hand in […]

The Kohler Brothers in World War II

July 09, 2018 ·

“Why don’t you go together and protect each other?” Mr. Kohler knew his son Charles was itching to join the war that the US suddenly found itself drawn into after the horrors that unfolded on December 7th, 1941, and it seemed logical to him that Charles and his brother Edwin enlist together. The two brothers […]

The History of the Hawaii Overprint Note

June 02, 2018 ·

The worst case scenario wasn’t an impossible one: in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack, Japan would invade Hawaii, overrun it, and use it as a launching point for an attack on the US mainland. As much as the United States was preparing itself to repel such an invasion, it also had contingencies in […]

World War II and Rationing in the US

April 18, 2018 ·

A great deal changed the moment Japan dropped the first bombs on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The United States, a nation that for years had followed to a policy of isolationism, found itself forced into a war it had long sought to avoid. In order to succeed, the nation would have to adapt […]

Balloons of War: The Japanese Fu-Go

March 20, 2018 ·

During the course of World War II, all sides had their own secret projects intended to give them a strategic edge. The United States was working on a massive bomb that could put an immediate end to the conflict. In Japan, researchers were hard at work on Fu-Go, a unique weapon that, on the surface, […]

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"Rosie the Riveter" Inspiration Has Died

The America First Committee and Pearl Harbor

Wartime Blackouts: From Drills to Reality

The Secret Japanese Plan for Biological Warfare

The Fate of the Captured Midget Submarine HA. 19

Reactions to Pearl Harbor from the Man on the Street

The Kohler Brothers in World War II

The History of the Hawaii Overprint Note

World War II and Rationing in the US

Balloons of War: The Japanese Fu-Go

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