Everybody Joins the War Effort 1942

Hollywood joins the war effort in this installment of "Tracing World War II," from the holdings of the National Archives. Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Joe Louis and others show off their new military uniforms while the Royal Air Force takes on Germany from the air.

SUMMARY
Part 1 shows celebrities in military service (Jackie Coogan, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Clark Gable, Joe Louis, Assoc. Justice Frank Murphy, Tyrone Power, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., James Roosevelt, and James Stewart) and film entertainers on war bond tours (including James Cagney, Ronald Colman, Bing Crosby, Irene Dunne, Greer Garson, and Heddy Lamar). It shows scenes of Hollywood and Washington, D.C. In part 2, antiaircraft guns are manufactured. In part 3, the Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs France and Germany.

Transcript (PDF): http://archives.gov/social-media/transcripts/transcript-everybody-joins-us-war-effort-38919.pdf

CREATED BY
Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau. (12/17/1942 - 09/15/1945)

REPOSITORY:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.

For information about ordering reproductions of moving images held by the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, visit: http://www.archives.gov/research/order/broadcast-quality-film-dc.html

SUBJECTS
Savings bonds
World War, 1939-1945
Cagney, James, 1899-1986
Colman, Ronald
Coogan, Jackie
Crosby, Bing, 1904-1977
Fairbanks, Douglas, 1883-1939
Gable, Clark, 1901-1960
Garson, Greer
Lamarr, Hedy, 1913-2000
Louis, Joe, 1914-1981
Power, Tyrone
Roosevelt, James, 1907-1991
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Stewart, James
United News Company, Producer
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California)
Washington, DC

MORE INFORMATION:
More information is available in the National Archives online catalog:
http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=38919

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