Amberg File News Today

For its Sept. 22, 1941 issue, LIFE Magazine selected Jane Amberg, of Kankakee, to represent what it termed the “biggest single group of workers in the U.S.A.” — American housewives.

During World War II, thousands of long-distance romances were carried on between soldiers overseas and their love interests back home in America. The medium that helped keep the romances alive