Specific childhood experiences across the country:

• The biographer Deborah Gorham describes her experiences as a child during World War II, after her father, an American pilot, enlisted in the Canadian air force.
• Robert Heide describes his childhood in Irvington, New Jersey, which is near New York City, during World War II.
• Anne Relph spent her wartime childhood in California.
• N. Scott Momaday, a novelist, poet, and literary spent his childhood on the Navajo, Apache and Pueblo reservations of the Southwest.
• Sheril Janovsky Cunning’s wartime childhood took place in Long Beach, California.
• Memories of being a wartime teenager
• Historian William Tuttle, Jr., remembers his wartime childhood in Detroit.
• Novelist Willie Morris recalls his wartime childhood in Yazoo City, Mississippi.
• Memories of a wartime girlhood
• Television personality Dick Clark was 14-years-old in 1943 when his older brother joined the Air Force