This is a reprint of the 1942 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses. We have used the actual pages and cover of the original book so as to preserve the integrity and flavor of the original publication.
A personal recollection by Mark J. Brannon of his service in the Navy during WWII aboard the USS Hutchins. Mark remembers his early training, daily life aboard a destroyer, and the battles he and his... More > fellow shipmen fought.< Less
A personal recollection by Mark J. Brannon of his service in the Navy during WWII aboard the USS Hutchins. Mark remembers his early training, daily life aboard a destroyer, and the battles he and his... More > fellow shipmen fought.< Less
The USAAF arrived in Britain in 1942 and remained there until 1945. During their tenure the units of the 8th AAF operated a range of aircraft including the Spitfire, Boeing B-17, Consolidated B-24,... More > Lockheed P-38 and the Republic P-47 all of which are heavily illustrated within the covers. The layout is centred around individual combat groups there being entries for all known units.< Less
Letters to Braeside Farm tell the story of one man's adventure in the Canadian north during World War II. The Canol Project was a joint program between the Canadian and American governments to gain... More > access to an oil source that would not be threatened by a Japanese invasion. Alex Hemstock went up north as a young engineer to work for Imperial Oil who had an interest in the Norman Wells oilfield. These letters were saved by Alex's mother and describe his experiences during the years from 1942-1945.< Less
In 1942, only 24 days after Pearl Harbor, school girl Eleanor Law, of Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida, began her diary. Through that first year of World War II, she observes civilian life... More > and finds love. Her diary tells of meeting the man she would eventually marry and live with for 51 years. Breathless, excited, happy, anxious--her words reveal the real concerns of the time. As German subs sink ships in sight of Jacksonville and the FBI captures Nazi spies right in the city, Eleanor also worries about the USO dance and her school grades in real time.< Less
1942 to 1952—a time of rapid change as seen by a young boy in Chicago
The unconditional love of grandparents
The mother he loved and feared
The competitive, one-of-a-kind father
The... More > neighborhood goes to war
A Jewish family in an Italian Catholic neighborhood
The confessions of a good (most of the time) boy
The missing girl and the thing in the swamp
The ubiquity of radio and the coming of TV
Weekends in those palatial movie theaters
The secrets kept by adults—death, divorce, money, and sex
Games, gangs, and simple pleasures
UFOs and a man from Mars< Less
