The Wartime Forties word searches
Big band, the home front and the spirit of the 1940s.
Word searches
11 puzzlesBig Band & Swing
Glenn Miller, bandleaders and the music that kept spirits high
Dance Hall Days
Jitterbug nights, big band brass and the wartime palais.
Forties Fashion
Utility frocks, victory rolls and seamed stockings with wartime flair.
Forties Kitchen
Ration books, Dig for Victory and making do with scraps.
Hollywood Canteen
Movie stars, war bonds, pin-ups and the GI dream factory.
Rosie the Riveter
Celebrating the women who powered America's wartime factories.
Silver Screen Forties
Golden-age cinema, Casablanca, Brief Encounter, the picture house.
The Home Front
Rationing, blackouts, Anderson shelters and the Blitz spirit.
USO Shows
Bob Hope, canteens and a touch of home for troops overseas.
Victory Celebrations
Street parties, bunting and dancing on the day peace came home.
Wartime Wireless
The BBC, Vera Lynn and gathering round the wireless
A closer look
About The Wartime Forties
The forties had a sound you could feel in your chest, a big band brass section swelling across a dance hall, a radio crackling the evening news from the kitchen, a Andrews Sisters harmony drifting out of a Hollywood Canteen. This collection gathers the full world of that decade: the women rolling up their sleeves on the factory floor, the victory gardens out back, the silver screen glamour that kept spirits high, the swing dancers who spun away their worries on a Saturday night, and the USO stages where a little music made an ocean feel smaller. From the careful ingenuity of the forties kitchen to the sharp silhouettes of forties fashion, every puzzle here is a doorway back into that particular mix of grit and grace. Pick whichever corner of the decade calls to you, and take your time with it.