The Victory Home:
War Work--Non-Industrial Workers

Poster: Help Bring Them Back to You! Make Yours a Victory Home!

The “extraction” trades were in high demand, too. Food, lumber, and metal ores were desperately needed for the war effort. Productivity had to be increased, even as workers were leaving their jobs to enlist.

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Photos

These photos are in the American Memory collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945 . Click on the small image to see a larger one. (For more images, search keywords, food for defense, food for victory, etc.)

Adams County, North Dakota. Farmers brought their own lunch to an all day Food for Victory meeting. Coffee was served by one of the ladies. The meeting was held in the rural school house.
Photo 1, 2, 3

Some of the thousands of baby chicks brought by FSA (Farm Security Administration) as part of the Food for Defense Program. Greene County, Georgia.

Josh and Eulia Smart place a second batch of chicks in their brooder, to raise more chickens for the FSA (Farm Security Administration) "Food for Defense" program. Coffee County, Alabama. FSA superintendent Mr. McArthur in background.

James Drigger shows his family how to put fresh water into FSA (Farm Security Administration) wire-floored brooder. Coffee County, Alabama. (FSA (Farm Security Administration) "Food for Defense" program).

FSA (Farm Security Administration) truck enroute to market with chickens raised through the "Food for Defense" program. Coffee County, Alabama.

Gloucester, Massachusetts. "Food for Victory" fishing. Hauling fish in a cart from the wharfside to a fish packing plant.

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Striking good fishing grounds, fishermen load their boat with rosefish. Only a thin slice from each side of the rosefish is useable as food. Fish meal and fish oil are made from the remaining parts.

These photos are in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

Alton Lee carries a shock of wheat across the broad fields of the Saugstad farm where he works from sunrise to long after sunset to help rush more food to United Nations' fighting men all over the world.

Mrs. William Wood manages a one hundred and twenty acre farm in Coloma, MI, with little male assistance.

Women pick cotton for the U.S. Crop Corps.

These women harvest hands in Rochelle, IL, are helping the national welfare by picking the summer asparagus crop.

"Mrs. Sam Crawford helps with tobacco harvesting on her husband's farm in Maryland."

The Farm Security Administration of the Department of Agriculture arranges for the worker's movements and pays for their travel.

The crew of Old Glory pulls up a sizeable haul of fish. Almost all of this catch will be filleted and frozen for military and lend-lease shipment.

Online Exhibits

Fighters on the Farm Front

Posters

These posters are in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

Grow More Sugar Beets in 1945

The Wartime Job of Farm Families

Can You Do Farm Work

These posters are in the Northwestern University Library collection. Click on the small image to see a larger one.

Muscle on a War Basis

Women’s Land Army

Fish Is a Fighting Food

Lumber for More PTs

Army Needs More Lumber

Lumber Goes to War

Wood Flies to War

These posters are in the Minneapolis Public Library's Posters of the Second World War collection.

Be a Victory Farm Volunteer

Keep That Lumber Coming!

These posters are in the American Legion's Wartime Posters online collection.

Wood Follows the Flag

Wood Joins the Colors

Wood Lands Our Fighters

We Need Lumber for Planes

We Need Lumber for Ships

We Need Lumber for Housing

America's Fishing Fleet and Men

Mine America's Coal

I Have a Real War Job

Your Metals Are in the Army

Metals at the Fighting Front

Your Metal in Action

At War in a Cornfield

Mr. Hog Producer

Produce High Grade Cotton

He's in There Pitchin', Too

He's Passing the Ammunition, Too

Pamphlets

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These pamphlets are in the Central Libraries of Southern Methodist University collection.

Produce More Meat, Milk and Leather with No More Feed By Controlling Cattle Grubs

$5 an Acre--To Help You Increase Flaxseed Production and Help Win the War

America's Biggest War Plant. "A Billion Acre War Plant! Food for Fighters, Civilians, Allies and Liberated Lands"

The Farmer Grades His Meat

Food for Freedom: Informational Handbook

Good Seed Potatoes Give Best Results

Guide to Conservation Practices for Ohio

Insecticides Are Ammunition: Use Them Wisely

International Trade Increases Demand for Farm Products

Join Us on the Farm Front: Be a Victory Farm Volunteer of the U. S. Crop Corps

Mobilizing Help to Save Crops: Emergency Farm Labor Program 1943 Results--1944 Needs

Safety for the US Crop Corps

Soil Conservation Aids Soybean Production

Substitutes for Scarce Materials

A Wartime Dairy Barn

Wartime Feed Mixtures for Chickens

The Women's Land Army of the U. S. Crop Corps, 1944

The Women's Land Army Works for Victory

Pitch In and Help!: The Women's Land Army Calls 800,000 Women to the Farm in 1944

Victory Farm Volunteers of the U. S. Crop Corps Need 500,000 Boys and Girls

Youth Learns and Earns While Helping on Farms with the Victory Farm Volunteers

Youth Lends a Hand: Victory Farm Volunteers

Your Country's Armed Services Need Milkweed Floss

Farmer--Send Your Logs to War

Wartime Harvests from Farm Woodlands

Forest Fire Fighters Service

Your Ore Goes Jap-Hunting

Audio and Video

You'll need to download the RealPlayer (the free "basic" version is on the right) or the QuickTime software to view this video material.

These videos are in the collection of Internet Moving Pictures Archive.

Home on the Range

Henry Browne, Farmer

The American Memory Collection, Buckeroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982, includes motion pictures, video clips, and audio selections related to ranching, some of which date from 1945.

Ads

These ads are in the Ad*Access collection of Duke University.

Fighters on the Food Front (Burlington Lines)

There's More to This Picture than Meets the Eye (Burlington Lines)