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| New Jersey Remembers World War II |
| New Jersey WWII Veterans, Civilians and their families share their memories of the war. NJN Public Television is conducting interviews to share New Jersey stories in an effort to honor those who served as part of the NJN Public Television WWII Project. You may share your story on this web site. These videos are also being broadcast on NJN around The War, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Click here to see the videos |
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| National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey |
| The National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey is the home of the Center for U.S. War Veterans’ Oral History Project. It is the Center’s mission to collect and preserve the memories of veterans through recorded oral history interviews. The Center for U. S. War Veterans’ Oral History Program is an official partner of the Library of Congress Veterans’ History Project in Washington, DC. The interviews are housed at the museum’s Sea Girt location, where they are accessible to researchers and scholars. As part of its program of providing historical information to the public, the museum is posting summaries of interviews on its website. |
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| Rosie the Riveter: Morris County Women During World War II – County College of Morris |
| The United States’ entry into World War II resulted in male workers in many industries being called into military service. Faced with a shortage of workers and the need to support the war effort on the home front, the federal government initiated a national campaign to recruit women into the labor force. The Learning Resource Center at the County College of Morris documented the stories of women in Morris County who worked in the defense industry during World War II. The project is dedicated to documenting and preserving the experiences and memories of those Morris County women who contributed to the war effort on the home front through their service in the defense industry. To view more interviews of Morris County “Rosies,” visit the official website. |
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| Triumphant Spirit: America’s World War II Generation Speaks – Brookdale Community College |
The 35-part series was produced in 2001by Brookdale TV on behalf of the College’s Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution. Triumphant Spirit is a series of programs that feature the stories of a generation that fought and won the Second World War. No matter how they fought the war or where – on the home front or the battlefield – each veteran featured in the series contributed valiantly to a victory that changed the 20th century. They tell their stories in their own words. They are stories of actions and deeds that not only shaped the outcome of the war, but the very world we live in today . Watch NJN News' report on the Center. |
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| Seabrook at War: A Radio Documentary narrated by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
 Seabrook at War documents a little-known chapter of the home front during World War II. It is a story of labor, loyalty, and loss, and of four generations of a powerful family led by a patriarch, C.F. Seabrook, who was known as the "Henry Ford of Agriculture."
During World War II, Seabrook Farms supplied the military with fresh, frozen, and dehydrated food. Plagued by a chronic labor shortage, Seabrook Farms in southern New Jersey recruited agricultural and cannery workers including German prisoners of war; West Indian contract laborers; Japanese Americans and Japanese Peruvians from wartime detention camps in America; and Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians from postwar displaced persons camps in Europe
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| Victory in the Sea Lanes: The Merchant Marine |
 During WWII the Merchant Marines played a critical role in aiding the US Navy and Allies. Had these ships not been produced, the war would have been in all likelihood prolonged many months, if not years. Some argue the Allies would have lost without the assistance of the Merchant Marines and the means to carry the personnel, supplies, and equipment needed by the combined Allies to defeat the Axis powers. (It took 7 to 15 tons of supplies to support one soldier for one year.) 3.1 million tons of merchant ships were lost in World War II, mariners dying at a rate of 1 in 24. All told, 733 American cargo ships were lost and 8,651 of the 215,000 who served perished on troubled waters and off enemy shores. The U.S. wartime merchant fleet constituted one of the most significant contributions made by any nation to the eventual winning of the Second World War.
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