The Home Front
World War II without leaving town: shipyards, spy scares, and the victory gardens next door.
12 narrated stories — read them here, or hear them all in the app.
San Francisco
When War Darkened San Francisco
How fear, blackouts, and coastal defenses reshaped San Francisco after Pearl Harbor.
Lafayette
Lafayette and the Quiet Machinery of War
A local wartime story of fields, prisoners, and hidden intelligence.
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial
Port Chicago’s Blast and the Refusal That Echoed
A wartime explosion became a civil-rights turning point in uniform.
Oakland Army Base
Where the Pacific War Passed Through Oakland
How Oakland’s waterfront turned railcars and staging camps into a human pipeline to war.
Manzanar National Historic Site
Under the Sierra, Life Behind Barbed Wire
How Manzanar was built fast, and how people endured inside it.
Amache National Historic Site
Amache on the High Plains
How a wartime camp became a forced community on Colorado’s plains.
Rohwer Relocation Center Cemetery
When Farmland Became Rohwer
How Arkansas Delta land became a vast incarceration camp in 1942.
Pickens County
Behind Barbed Wire in Pickens County
How a rural Alabama county became home to thousands of German POWs.
Camp Navajo
Where the Pines Hid an Ammunition City
A secret wartime depot in the ponderosa country west of Flagstaff.
Former DuPont Seaford nylon plant site
When Nylon From Seaford Went to War
A Delaware plant turned a new fiber into a wartime necessity.
Camp Blanding Joint Training Center
When Camp Blanding Became a Wartime City
How a Guard post transformed rural Clay County during World War II.
Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge
The Wartime Decision That Drew North Metro’s Map
How a World War II arsenal permanently reshaped Adams County land.
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