Somethin' to Write Home About

Items

• W.W. Embree Collection, RC 2, 12/1-S-6
  Alluminum and paper scrap piles collected for the war effort, DeKalb
• W.W. Embree Collection, RC 2, Box 6, Folder 47
• Oversize Cllection, RC 200, #s 389, 412
• Wurlitzer Company Records, RC 169, Box 3, Folder 1
  Wurlitzer Company, DeKalb, Illinois. Workers, mostly women, helping with war production
• W.W. Embree Collection, RC 2, box 6, folder 47
  "Women in war work" pamphlet, United States Employment Service of the War Manpower Commission
• Robert Borden Papers, RC 186, Box 20, Folder 3
• W.W. Embree Collection, RC 2, Box 1, Folder 11
  Soldiers not only craved news from home, such as in the letter from Waite Embree to Major Loren Ake, but were desperate to get information back to their families. Robert Borden, a sailor from Rockford, Illinois tried unsuccessfully to inform his family about his responsibilities and location. Most of his letters were marked rejected by censors and returned. Borden evaded censors by handing off a nine-page letter to a shipmate who was returning to Illinois from their ship, which was located near Japan. Loose Lips Sink Ships.