Directions:
Use the following pictures to get a sense of the activities taking place in Chicago during World War II. Use these to inform your letter from the homefront and be sure to use specifics from the images to flesh out your letter.
To read the full caption please click on each photo.
Use the following pictures to get a sense of the activities taking place in Chicago during World War II. Use these to inform your letter from the homefront and be sure to use specifics from the images to flesh out your letter.
To read the full caption please click on each photo.
Letter Assignment:
We typically think of the importance of soldiers’ letters to their family when we consider the Second World War. Equally important—perhaps even more important—were the letters that family members and friends wrote to their loved ones serving overseas. Compose a letter to a relative serving in the war from the perspective of one of the people listed below. Be sure to use specific information to let your soldier, sailor, or airman know what is going on in Chicago. DATES MATTER--be sure to look at the photo dates as they pertain to your selected individual.
We typically think of the importance of soldiers’ letters to their family when we consider the Second World War. Equally important—perhaps even more important—were the letters that family members and friends wrote to their loved ones serving overseas. Compose a letter to a relative serving in the war from the perspective of one of the people listed below. Be sure to use specific information to let your soldier, sailor, or airman know what is going on in Chicago. DATES MATTER--be sure to look at the photo dates as they pertain to your selected individual.
- Sister who volunteers at the Chicago Servicemen's Center, writing to her older brother, 1944.
- Mother who is a member of the Women's Auxiliary Corps (WAC), writing to her son, 1943.
- Brother who works in the defence industry writing to his younger, 1944.
- Wife writing to her husband right after the announcement of Japan's surrender, 1945.
- Daughter who works selling war bonds writing to her father, 1944
- Son who is learning about the war in school and loves watching demonstrations of military gear writing to his father in 1945.