>http://www.prewarbuick.com/features/your_car_is_a_war_now
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>Other documents I have read about gasoline rationing indicate that 17 states began rationing on May 15th, 1942, and by December of that year all states were rationing gasoline. The national maximum “Victory Speed” was 35 miles an hour.
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>I have my ration books that allowed purchasing such things as shoes, which my mother kept. I recall hearing the words, "ration book" towards the end of the war, as I was born May 9th, 1942.
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>My dad was in the South Pacific and wrote a letter to my mom in 1943 asking, "Did Tommy get his shoes"? It is interesting to know what peoples lives were like throughout history.

I grew up with so many stories of my family in the Blitz over Liverpool - their hiding under the stairs (the last part of a house to remain standing usually), talking to their favourite cockroach therein, et al, that one afternoon, whilst walking in our nearby village, an aeroplane droned lazily across the sky and I ran for cover!