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Summary:
- Presents a commemoration of the World War II years by combining legendary speeches by President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, President Truman, General MacArthur and others, with musical favorites of those times by recording artists like Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, Les Brown, and many more.
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Table of Contents:
- Documentary/Speech selections : Air raid siren (warning)
- Pearl Harbor is attacked, 12/7/41
- Pres. Roosevelt declares war, 12/8/41
- British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returns from Munich, 9/29/38
- Roosevelt open N.Y. World's Fair
- Chamberlain declares war, 9/3/39
- Ed Murrow broadcasts on evacuation of children, London, 9/39
- Murrow on retreat from Dunkirk, 6/40
- News flashes on the German advance across Europe ; France surrenders
- London Blitz, Fall, 1940
- Murrow on devastation in London, 1940
- Winston Churchill tells America "Give us the tools and we'll finish the job"
- Roosevelt "Arsenal of Democracy speech", Congress, Spring 1941
- Mary Anderson, Director of Women's bureau, Dept. of Labor, on women's value to the war effort
- Paul O'Leary, Deputy Administrator in charge of rationing, discusses problems with typical housewife and her grocer
- William Joyce, "Lord Haw-Haw" broadcasts over German radio
- Tokyo Rose broadcast to American troops in Pacific
- Roosevelt Labor day 1941 address
- Interview outside Voltee Aircraft plant, Nashville, TN
- Murrow broadcasts his experiences on a bomb raid over Berlin
- On the spot account of American forces landing on Iwo Jima
- Roosevelt addresses Congress on results of Three power Yalta conference, 2/45
- Hitler speaks : Death of Hitler is reported
- President Truman announces dropping of 1st Atomic Bomb over Hiroshima
- Unconditional surrender of Japanese announced
- General MacArthur announces surrender of Japanese aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay
- Air Raid Siren "All Clear."
- Songs: Remember Pearl Harbor
- We did it before (And we can do it again)
- The Umbrella man : extract
- Indian Summer : extract
- Dawn of a new day : extract
- We'll meet again : extract
- My sister and I : extract
- (There'll be bluebirds over) The white cliffs of Dover : extract
- The last time I saw Paris : extract
- I don't want to set the world on fire : extract
- The deepest shelter in town
- A little old church in England : extract
- London pride
- Any bonds today : extract
- Joltin' Joe Dimaggio : extract
- Stalin wasn't stallin'
- This is the Army, Mr. Jones : extract
- Bell bottome trouser : extract
- Keep 'em flying : extract
- The Marines' hymn : extract
- Ma! I miss your apple pie : extract
- Boogie woogie bugle boy : extract
- Pistol packin' mama : extract
- I don't want to walk without you : extract
- Don't sit under the apple tree : extract
- When the lights go on again : extract
- There won't be a shortage of love : extract
- Der Fuehrer's face : extract
- You're a sap, Mr. Jap : extract
- FDR Jones : extract
- Lili Marlene
- I left my heart at the Stage Door Canteen : extract
- Girls, don't refuse to kiss a soldier
- Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition : extract
- Harlem on parade : extract
- They're either too young or too old
- Comin' in on a wing and a prayer
- You'd be so nice to come home to
- Wonder when my baby's coming home : extract
- Stars and stripes of Iwo Jima : extract
- Yalta : extract
- Don't fence me in : extract
- I'll buy that dream : extract
- When that man is dead and gone : extract
- Atom and evil : extract
- Fightin' Doug MacArthur : extract
- I'm gonna love that guy : extract
- Sentimental journey : extract
- Waitin' for the train to come in : extract
- It's been a long long time
- My guys come back
- Air raid siren "All Clear" signal.
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Language Notes:
- Sung and spoken in English.
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Performers:
- Variously: Franklin Roosevelt, Neville Chamberlain, Edward R. Murrow, Winston Churchill, Tokyo Rose, Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, speakers ; Charlie Spivak, Eddy Howard, Lawrence Welk, Kay Kyser, Horace Heidt, Jack Leonard, Benny Goodman, Helen Forrest, Kate Smith, Tommy Tucker, Florence Desmond, Ray Noble, Noel Coward, Les Brown, Golden Gate Quartet, Gene Krupa, Dean Hudson, Al Dexter, Harry James, Peggy Lee, Johnny Bond, Carl Hoff, Charlie and His Orchestra, Karl and Harty, Jimmy Dorsey, Dick Jurgens, Bob Wills, Gene Autry, Buddy Clark, Ginny Simms, performers.
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General Notes:
- (C.2) From the collection of Joe Morris.
Columbia/Legacy: C2K 48516 (CK 48517--CK 48518).
Title from disc label.
Recorded 1938-1945.
Program notes in English inserted in container.
From the collection of Zatopek.
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Physical Description:
- 2 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in.
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Physical Characteristics:
- plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced
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Audio Characteristics:
- digital; optical; 1.4 m/s; mono
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Digital Characteristics:
- audio file; CD audio
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Other Standard Numbers:
- Universal Product Code: 074644851625
Publisher Number, Columbia/Legacy: C2K 48516
Publisher Number, Columbia/Legacy: CK 48517
Publisher Number, Columbia/Legacy: CK 48518
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Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 92788511
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OCLC Numbers:
- 25256797