The War Effort: 1942
Americans were asked to:
Search their cabinets, drawers and boxes.
Rummage through their basements.
Forage their sheds.
Comb their attics.
Find anything—anything—that may be useful to the War Effort.
They were collected by:
Adults in cars, trucks, and horse‑drawn carts.
Children dragging factory manufactured or homemade, orange crate wagons.
There were:
Scrap steel drives.
Newspaper drives.
Rag drives.
Milkweed drives… Milkweed? Even milkweed was collected from empty lots to make fillings for life‑jackets.
The came:
From the country.
From the cities.
From neighborhood to neighborhood.
From block to block.
From house to house.
From room to room.
For the country!
For our country!
For America!
God bless America!
