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Home front America : popular culture of the World War II era. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1995. ISBN 0-8118-0927-7. OCLC 31207708. Jones, John Bush. The songs that fought the war : popular music and the home front, 1939–1945. Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, 2006. ISBN 1-58465-443-0. OCLC 69028073. Krummel, Donald William.
World War II was the first conflict to take place in the age of electronically distributed music. Many people in the war had a pressing need to be able to listen to the radio and 78-rpm shellac records en masse. By 1940, 96.2% of Northeastern American urban households had radio. The lowest American demographic to embrace mass-distributed music ...
Action in the North Atlantic, also known as Heroes Without Uniforms, is a 1943 American black-and-white war film from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by Jerry Wald, directed by Lloyd Bacon, that stars Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey as officers in the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II. [ 2 ] Typical of other films in the era, Action ...
Box office. $2,275,000 (US rentals) [1][2] American Guerrilla in the Philippines (released as I Shall Return in the UK) is a 1950 American war film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Tyrone Power as a U.S. Navy ensign stranded by the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II. Based on the 1945 book of the same name by Ira Wolfert ...
Running time. 90 minutes. Country. United Kingdom. Languages. English Norwegian. Age of Heroes is a 2011 British war film [ 1 ] directed by Adrian Vitoria. The film is based on the real-life events of the formation of Ian Fleming 's 30 Commando unit during World War II. The film was released in the United Kingdom in 2011.
In the 1942 Pacific theatre of World War II, Lieutenant Junior Grade Sam Lawson, USN, is a Japanese-language interpreter who — so far — has avoided combat.His commanding officer, Captain John G. Nolan, unexpectedly cancels his leave and informs Lawson that he is to be assigned to a British infantry commando unit in the New Hebrides Islands for a combat mission.
The Ballad of Rodger Young. Be Honest with Me. Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar. Beer Barrel Polka. Bell Bottom Trousers. Bless 'Em All. Blood on the Risers. Blue Smoke (song) Bomber Command (song)
The Panzerlied (English: "Tank Song") is a Wehrmacht military march of the Nazi era, sung primarily by the Panzerwaffe, the tank force of Nazi Germany during World War II. It is one of the best-known songs of the Wehrmacht and was popularised by the 1965 film Battle of the Bulge. [ 1 ] It is still used today by the Chilean and Brazilian armies ...