During World War II, Seabrook Farms supplied the military with fresh, frozen, and dehydrated food. Plagued by a chronic labor shortage, Seabrook Farms in southern New Jersey recruited agricultural and cannery workers including German prisoners of war; West Indian contract laborers; Japanese Americans and Japanese Peruvians from wartime detention camps in America; and Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians from postwar displaced persons camps in Europe.

Seabrook at War documents a little-known chapter of the home front during World War II. It is a story of labor, loyalty, and loss, and of four generations of a powerful family led by a patriarch, C.F. Seabrook, who was known as the "Henry Ford of Agriculture." Written and Produced by Marty Goldensohn and David Steven Cohen.

A coproduction of WWFM/WWNJ, Trenton and the New Jersey Historical Commission, Department of State.

This program was made possible by grants from the New Jersey Historical Commission, Department of State, and the New Jersey State Council for the Humanities, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional funding was provided by Corestates New Jersey National Bank. Photo courtesy of the New Jersey State Archives.