Victory At Sea 2 and Victory on the Home Front for KV Hero Anna Wolkoff

The attack on Pearl Harbor begins. While later on during the war years Miss Anna Wolkoff of Knickerbocker Village leads her team of salvagists to another kind of victory, Fron the nytimes June 27, 1945 From tin can colonels and uncle sam scrappers:

During World War II, the folks back home in the United States undertook a series of conservation measures which included rationing, production of food in home "Victory" gardens for one's own use, and collections of scrap materials to be remanufactured into war materiel. The first scrap drive was for aluminum in the summer of 1941. Many different kinds of items were eventually collected, including iron, steel, rubber, copper, brass, aluminum, zinc, lead, paper, tin cans, nylon, silk, cooking fats, and rags .

There were a number of drives in 1941 and 1942, many of which involved children, but one of the more significant events occurred in June, 1942 when the popular Little Orphan Annie newspaper comic strip introduced a story line in which his plucky orphan girl decided to help the war effort by organizing children to collect scrap. For a name for her organization she adopted the name "Junior Commandos." Having had some previous military experience in single-handedly blowing up Nazi submarines(!), Annie assumed the top rank of colonel - Colonel Annie - and organized the children along military lines. Though Annie's efforts were , of course, only in the funny pages real groups, organized in the same way, were launched within a month .