WWII Victory Pin - Pins that symbolized the hope for victory were worn on the home-front in support of our fighting men and women serving in the war. This is an unusual example with an eagle spread across the V symbol. It is made of sterling silver by Viking Craft



Victory pin

The ruins of the building that was the American Embassy in Berlin until 1941. Four days after the attack on Pearl Harbor the U.S. and Germany were at war and the embassy ceased operations altogether. Its personnel were confined for 5 1/2 months in the Grand Hotel Jeschke at Bad Nauheim.The Swiss, as a neutral state, took over the building for the rest of the war. The ruined embassy was finally demolished in 1957.

Former US Embassy Berlin

A soldier and his mother in a strawberry field near Florin, California, on May 11, 1942. The soldier, age 23, had volunteered for the Army on July 10, 1941, and was stationed at Camp Leonard Wood, Missouri. He was furloughed to help his mother and family prepare for their evacuation. He is the youngest of six children, two of them volunteers in United States Army. The mother, age 53, came from Japan 37 years ago. Her husband died 21 years ago, leaving her to raise six children. She worked in a strawberry basket factory until last year when her children leased three acres of strawberries "so she wouldn't have to work for somebody else". 