Photo Credit: National Archives.
 
Read the transcript of our live interview with Betty Reilly.
 
World War II Remembered
 
American Home Front
 
 

Elizabeth "Betty" Reilly celebrated her 15th birthday on the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and began the American involvement in World War II. Over the next four years, she learned what it was like to live and work on the American home front. Follow Betty as she graduates from high school to work at a ship-building plant. (Vocabulary words link to definitions.)