Thanks for the memories: love, sex, and World War II

Introduction

Prologue : to my parents, Morris and Shirley Mersky

Derailed dreams

"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition"

"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may die"

Discrimination in the ranks

An army of service wives

Waiting wives and home front popular culture

"Over sexed, over fed, over paid, over there"

"You'd be so nice to come home to"

Babies, suburbia, and the seeds of change.