Two particularly compelling yearbooks are from McKinley High School in Honolulu and Excelsior Union High School in Artesia, California. Through the Museum’s collection of WWII high school yearbooks, students can explore how the lives of their counterparts changed throughout war.
Nowhere was this more apparent than in Hawaii or the West Coast of the continental United States.
The attack on Pearl Harbor and its aftermath transformed the lives of many Americans, including students.