Growing Up on the Home Front: Childhood Recollections of Buffalo During World War II

By Graham Millar - January 29, 2018

Veterans’ stories are not the only ones disappearing with the passing of the WWII generation. We share one man’s recollections of what it was like to be a child on the Buffalo Home Front.

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