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Sinbad 1943Sinbad, US Coast Guard Dog, The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Campbell adopted a mixed-breed puppy in 1938. Sinbad was their mascot, becoming world famous. He was retired to Barnegat Lighthouse in NJ. Read Sinbad's full story.
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Further Reading

American Red Cross. The Oranges and Maplewood Chapter. The War Years, September 1, 1939-September 2, 1945. West Orange, NJ: Midland Press, [1945].

Brown, J. Douglas. The Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University in World War II: A Personal Account. Princeton, NJ: Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University, 1976.

Coyne, Kevin. Marching Home: To War and Back With the Men of One American Town. New York: Viking, 2003. An account of World War II as experienced by the men of Freehold, NJ.

Cunningham, John. New Jersey: A Mirror on America. Andover, N.J.: Afton Publishing Co. 1976.

Cunningham, John. This is New Jersey. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 1994.

Cunningham, John, and Andrew H. Bobeck. This Was New Jersey: As Seen by Photographer Harry C. Dorer. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press 2007.

Dawidoff, Nicholas. The Catcher Was A Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg.
New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Born in Newark, NJ and educated at Princeton, major-league baseball player Moe Berg became a spy for the OSS during World War II.

Edge, Walter E. The New Jersey State Government's Share in Reconversion From War to Peace. Trenton, NJ: [s.n.], 1945.

Johnson, Melissa A. Princeton, Forward March!: A Guide to World War II Collections at Princeton University. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1992.

Kindre, Tom. The Boys from New Jersey. Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing Co., 2004. Experiences of New Jersey men in World War II.

Martucci, William C. To Secure These Rights: A Study of the Political Concerns and Development of the Black Community in Newark, New Jersey During the Second World War, 1941-1945. (Thesis). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University, 1974.

McBride, William, Carl Ek and Rodney L. Odell. Anybody Here from Jersey?: The Collected Stories of the Herald-News War Correspondents. Passaic, NJ: The Herald-News, 1945.

Micheletti, Laura A. Carrying On: Students at New Jersey College for Women and World War II. New Brunswick, NJ: 1999. ("A thesis submitted to the History Honors Program and the Women's Studies Honors Program at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey...")

Mischlich, Marston A. Atlantic City Answers the Call to World War II: How It and the Surrounding Area Contributed to the War Effort. California: California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1998. (Thesis).

Preil, Joseph J. (ed.) Holocaust Testimonies: European Survivors and American Liberators in New Jersey. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

Schmidt, George P. Proposals for Post-War Education of Returning Service Women at New Jersey College for Women. [New Jersey: s.n., 1943].

 

National Guard Militia Museum in New Jersey

National Guard Militia Museum in New Jersey

Millville Army Airfield Museum

National Guard Militia Museum in New Jersey

Battleship New Jersey

New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs

Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Veterans History Project

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