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It was quietly displayed on my friend’s shelf, this weather-softened pouch of brown leather — the kind that remembers the shape of hands long gone. Inside lay pieces of America’s home-front story: a child’s ration book, a slip denying the family’s request for gasoline, and a scattering of red OPA tokens that once clinked like tiny promises. During the war, even the youngest had ration books. The name of my friend’s brother, three-year-old Marshall C. Kline,   was written   in

The 351st Bomb Group Association is comprised of retired 351st veterans, their families, and anyone interested in the Bomb Group and preserving its history for future generations. It's readily accessible online ( http://www.351st.org) and contains links to the group's history, a crew member database, and a mission database that allows users to search the load lists for every mission (there were 320) to find out which men and which planes flew on which mission. There's also a

When my husband's mother passed away in 2015, we discovered a collection of letters from his uncle, written while he served in the US Army Air Forces during World War II. As we read them, my husband reflected on how his father had always desired to visit the site in Wales where their plane had crashed on the way back to the United States, carrying his uncle and nineteen other servicemen. This sparked a journey that led us from the US to Wales, and eventually on a virtual jour

Welcome! I'm P.J. Marks . At long last, my book, More to This Life: The Story of the Boys Across the Pond , is in the hands of an editor,...