Interactions with outsiders energized Wilmington’s World War II home front, exploding from isolation to inundation. Numerous women I interviewed for my wartime Wilmington books said the war years were the most exciting of their lives, during ages 16 into their 20s.
“Instead of just meeting people around the corner, we met a wide variety from all over,” Sally Josey remembered.
And, young women found they could hold real jobs before romancing, albeit invigorating and exhausting.
War or not, the flourishing social life inevitably generated myriad connections and characterized the times. Here today, gone tomorrow. Will he survive? For the war effort