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  • Sale! World War II Indiana Landmarks

    World War II Indiana Landmarks

    Original price was: $23.99.Current price is: $19.19.

    World War II Indiana Landmarks features places throughout the state that played significant roles during World War II. Many of these locations memorialize those who fought as well as those who contributed to the war effort. These places of remembrance include historical sites, monuments, markers, museums, surviving buildings, a surviving Navy ship, a surviving plane,…

  • Sale! World War II Italian Prisoners of War in Chambersburg

    World War II Italian Prisoners of War in Chambersburg

    Original price was: $24.99.Current price is: $19.99.

    During World War II, the US government interned more than 1,200 captured Italian soldiers at the Letterkenny Army Ordnance Depot located near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. These troops collaborated with the United States in a collective effort to defeat the Axis powers. They formed the 321st Italian Quartermaster Battalion, and their work consisted mainly of stocking and…

  • Sale! World War II Long Island

    World War II Long Island

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    Long Island was transformed from a pastoral rural community to a modern suburban behemoth by playing an integral role in the homefront of World War II. Dozens of Nazi spies infiltrated industry throughout the island and communicated industrial secrets back to Germany as the FBI chased them down. Long Island held the record for producing…

  • Sale! World War II Massachusetts

    World War II Massachusetts

    Original price was: $24.99.Current price is: $19.99.

    Over 500,000 Massachusetts residents answered the call to military duty in the Second World War, while the rest of the state’s citizens fought the war on the home front. Everyone in the family, including pets, found creative and essential ways to contribute. Thousands worked in factories, volunteered for Civil Defense, watched for enemy aircraft, and…

  • Sale! World War II Milwaukee

    World War II Milwaukee

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    Long before Japanese bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor, Milwaukee was the “Machine Shop to the World.” Thanks to the city’s large industrial base, factories quickly retooled and mobilized for wartime production. Harley-Davidson produced thousands of military motorbikes, and Falk Corporation churned out gears that turned the propellers on hundreds of ships. Locals sacrificed their…

  • Sale! World War II Nebraska

    World War II Nebraska

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    The fight against the Axis required sacrifice and dedication, and Nebraskans proudly answered the call with grit, determination and duty. Three ordnance plants and two naval munitions depots brought employment and economic opportunities but also housing shortages and racial disturbances. The U.S. Army Air Corps established eleven air bases here, leading to community engagement through…

  • Sale! World War II POW Camps in Ohio

    World War II POW Camps in Ohio

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    During World War II, more than six thousand prisoners of war resided at Camp Perry near Port Clinton and its branch camps at Columbus, Rossford, Cambridge, Celina, Bowling Green, Defiance, Marion, Parma and Wilmington. From the start, the camps were a study in contradictions. The Italian prisoners who arrived first charmed locals with their affable,…

  • Sale! World War II POW Camps of Wyoming

    World War II POW Camps of Wyoming

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    I was given the choice to join the German army or get shot! German prisoner of war at Camp Deaver, 1944 Wyoming’s nineteen prisoner of war camps held several thousand incarcerated Italian and German prisoners during World War II. Historical records, photographs and personal stories shared by camp residents reveal details about this little-known part…

  • Sale! World War II Rhode Island

    World War II Rhode Island

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    Rhode Island’s contribution to World War II vastly exceeded its small size. Narragansett Bay was an armed camp dotted by army forts and navy facilities. They included the country’s most important torpedo production and testing facilities at Newport and the Northeast’s largest naval air station at Quonset Point. Three special, top-secret German POW camps were…

  • Sale! World War II Richmond, Virginia

    World War II Richmond, Virginia

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    The effects of the war raging across Europe were visible in Richmond as early as 1939, and Richmonders are always ready to fight for their cause. In that year, the city saw its first parking meters on the streets and began to collect aluminum scrap for use in war industries. In 1940, pursuant to the…

  • Sale! World War II Sacramento

    World War II Sacramento

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    Spurred into action by the attack on Pearl Harbor, Sacramento dragged itself out of the morass of the Great Depression and joined the war effort. Local citizens trained for Japanese attacks through Civilian Defense, cultivated thousands of acres of victory gardens and harnessed the agricultural riches of the region. Tens of thousands engaged in war…

  • Sale! World War II Shipbuilding in Duluth and Superior

    World War II Shipbuilding in Duluth and Superior

    Original price was: $24.99.Current price is: $19.99.

    World War II hinged on the Allies having enough ships to both fight the enemy and to carry millions of tons of war goods across the world’s oceans. Shipyards on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts built thousands of vessels, but America’s sometimes forgotten Fourth Coast, the Great Lakes, built hundreds of ships as well….

  • Sale! World War II Shipyards by the Bay

    World War II Shipyards by the Bay

    Original price was: $24.99.Current price is: $19.99.

    In the dark, frenzied years of World War II, the San Francisco Bay Area was the geographic center of a $6.3 billion West Coast shipbuilding industry. Stretching from the Golden Gate to Vallejo to Sunnyvale, 14 Bay Area yards launched many of the ships that helped save the free world. Basalt Rock of Napa, Bethlehem…

  • Sale! World’s Finest Beach

    World’s Finest Beach

    Original price was: $21.99.Current price is: $17.59.

    Beginning as a summer resort for the wealthy, the oceanfront of Jacksonville has morphed into an outrageously popular tourist destination, stretching from Mayport to Ponte Vedra Beach. Encompassing a fishing village, luxury hotels, a carnival, railroads, mines and flocks of tourists, these beaches have a vast and eclectic history. Discover how Mayport became an adjunct…

  • Sale! Worth

    Worth

    Original price was: $24.99.Current price is: $19.99.

    The story of Worth is interwoven with generational volunteerism and small-town charm. The Crandall family that came to Lane’s Island in 1858, named for early landowner DeWitt Lane, established the legacy of philanthropy that permeates today. Settlers in the town followed suit by donating land to establish the first school and church. The railroad expansion…

  • Sale! Worth County

    Worth County

    Original price was: $24.99.Current price is: $19.99.

    While grits and peanuts may seem synonymous with any Southern community, they carry a special weight in Worth County, Georgia. Established in 1853, Worth County emerged from small train depots, old roads, and villages into a group of lively communities whose agricultural heritage is recognized with the Georgia Peanut and National Grits Festivals each year….