Episode 5

Dorothy Mitten Berwager

A war bride who married the love of her life just a month after Pearl Harbor, Dorothy spent the war holding down the home front while her husband Mark, a Marine, fought in significant battles across the Pacific front. This episode introduces the Berwagers and includes letters penned by Dorothy from her bed in the maternity ward after giving birth to the couple's second child. Her candid description of giving birth alone, watching the other husbands with their wives and new babies, and her longing for her own husband provides a moving account of life in America during World War II.