A community responds to World War II

The American home front suffered little during the war. Food was rationed, but no one went hungry; gasoline was rationed, but chiefly for those who had no pressing need to drive. Nevertheless, it was from this secure American homeland that Ashland and the nation produced the guns, planes, tanks, ships, food, fuel and all the other items that not only equipped the huge American war machine, but our allies as well.

Men and women from Eastern Kentucky were part of the citizen army that fought the costliest war, in both blood and money, in our nation’s history.