The Garden State hasmade innumerable contributions to our nation's military history, on bothbattlefield and homefront, but many of those stories remain hidden within thelarger national narrative. Perhaps the most crucial one-day battle of theRevolution was fought in Monmouth County, and New Jersey officers engineeredthe conquest of California in the Mexican War. During the Civil War, a NewJersey unit was instrumental in saving Washington, D.C., from Confederatecapture. In World War II, New Jersey women flocked to war production factoriesand served in the armed forces, and a West Orange girl helped ferry Spitfirefighters in England. War came home to the coast in 1942 with the sinking of theSS Resor by a German submarine, butthe state's citizens reacted by contributing everything they could to the wareffort. Uncover these and other stories from New Jersey's hidden wartimehistory.