Daddy's gone to war the Second World War in the lives of America's children - Tuttle, William M. (Oxford University Press, 1995)
"First published in 1993 by Oxford University Press, Inc. First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1995"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-352) and index
Cover; Contents; 1. Pearl Harbor: Fears and Nightmares; 2. Depression Children and War Babies; 3. "Daddy's Gone to War"; 4. Homefront Families on the Move; 5. Working Mothers and Latchkey Children; 6. Rearing Preschool Children; 7. School-age Children Fight the War; 8. Children Play War Games; 9. Children's Entertainment: Radio, Movies, Comics; 10. The Fractured Homefront: Racial and Cultural Hostility; 11. Children's Health and Welfare; 12. "Daddy's Coming Home!"; 13. Confronting War's Enormity, Praising Its Glory; 14. Age, Culture, and History; 15. The Homefront Children at Middle Age
Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the home front during the Second World War saw the enemy only in newsreels and the pages of Life Magazine, but from Pearl Harbor on, "the war"--With its blackouts, air raids, and government rationing--became a dramatic presence in all of their lives. Thirty million Americans relocated, 3,700,000 hom