This thirty-three page paper written for History Seminar 448-480 at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay describes what it was like growing up in Manitowoc, Wisconsin during World War II. Based on fourteen oral history interviews with men and women who were between the ages of eight and eighteen during the period 1941-1945, the paper offers reminiscences about personal and family life, community life, and popular culture of that period as seen from the perspective of young people.