The Wartime Forties word searches
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Big Band & Swing
Glenn Miller, bandleaders and the music that kept spirits high
PlayDance Hall Days
Jitterbug nights, big band brass and the wartime palais.
PlayForties Fashion
Utility frocks, victory rolls and seamed stockings with wartime flair.
PlayForties Kitchen
Ration books, Dig for Victory and making do with scraps.
PlayHollywood Canteen
Movie stars, war bonds, pin-ups and the GI dream factory.
PlayRosie the Riveter
Celebrating the women who powered America's wartime factories.
PlaySilver Screen Forties
Golden-age cinema, Casablanca, Brief Encounter, the picture house.
PlayThe Home Front
Rationing, blackouts, Anderson shelters and the Blitz spirit.
PlayUSO Shows
Bob Hope, canteens and a touch of home for troops overseas.
PlayVictory Celebrations
Street parties, bunting and dancing on the day peace came home.
PlayWartime Wireless
The BBC, Vera Lynn and gathering round the wireless
PlayA 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.