What was the impact of WWII on the American civilian population?

impacted nearly
every aspect of American life, and fully 16 million Americans were drafted into the military or
volunteered and sent overseas on two fronts.  The civilian population at home faced rationing of
many consumer goods, gasoline, even things such as spare tires and sugar were hard to come by
without ration stamps.

Since so many families had at least one
and...