The Homefront 1944 to 1945 - Volume 3

Volume 3 of a 3 Part VHS Series released by Reader's Digest in 1989.
America: The Way We Were
The Home Front
1944 to 1945
Volume Three
From the box: “The tide has turned. Postwar hopes and dreams fill American hearts and minds. But radio broadcasts and newsreels remind Americans that the fighting and dying continue. Never before has a war been captured so completely by the motion picture camera.
On the home front, President Roosevelt is reelected by a landslide; the worst circus disaster in history occurs in Hartford, Connecticut; an Army B-52 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building; the United Nations charter is drafted; and because of a newspaper strike, New York City’s mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, reads the comics over the radio. Also share fascinating moments with Ronald Reagan, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joe Louis, Army veteran Hank Greenberg, and the West Point “Touchdown Twins,” Glenn Davis, and Doc Blanchard.
But the slogan “V for Victory” is on everyone’s mind as V-E Day and V-J Day approach. The joyous sights and sounds of V-J Day, a once-in-a-lifetime event, remain as moving today as they were in that not-so-far-away year, 1945.”
Home Entertainment Division
Reader’s Digest, Pleasantville, New York
1989

[@jaygreider4753]

My Uncle was an infantryman in N. Africa and wounded. He was treated by a French nurse in an Army hospital. After the war, he went back to Morocco and married her. They were married for 45 years.

[@karlahemphill3414]

Amazing how things turn out.huh

[@Clydesirota]

I love this!

[@BrendainPA]

This was a fantastic series - thank you so much for sharing it!

[@catherinelee3298]

This is a fabulous series. Thank you!🇺🇸

[@rayfridley6649]

Not just the movies: The musical theatre stage had such big hits like "Oklahoma!". When it opened at the Saint James Theatre, special passes were handed out without charge to military service people on furlough throughout New York. It was a great reminder of home for them. Many went away when the show was over with tears in their eyes.

[@jayyates1676]

Thanks so much for uploading this series! I really enjoyed it.

[@caseycrozier7661]

this was a great upload.. thank you so much...

[@Zachw2007]

Casey Crozier Lots of my generation, Millennials, couldn’t tell you WWII was 1941 to 1945.

[@MonicaM444]

This makes me smile so much. Born in 1969, but love looking at stuff from the 40’s. Thank you for this. 👍. These kind of people no longer exist. Sad.

[@JGLeber]

Born in 1943 ,mom had hard time in St. Louis while father was in Navy. Because of her German last name,many Germans in area, she was able to get extra meat from kindly German butchers. Nothing wrong helping a young woman with a baby. There was no hatred by civilians of German descent civilians unlike Great War at home. Second largest ethnic Group was of German descent in WW 2 and it can be argued ,with large number of German Americans who were in Armed Forces of US , it was almost a war between German Americans and Hitlers Germans. German and Irish Americans opposed US going into Great War.

[@rameshbhattacharjee4374]

It is not sad, just that the hippies spoilt everything

[@rameshbhattacharjee4374]

The USA Is More Inclusive In 2023 Than In 1944, Colored People Like Me Can Live As Equal Citizens With The White Anglo Saxon Protestants

[@franlooving4203]

Nice to hear Peter Thomas of Forensic Files narrating here. Best voice ever (along with David McCullough in the Civil War on PBS). Thanks for upload.

[@mariorodriguez5609]

@fran Looving. He voiced many things. I remembered his voice from slide film of dinosaurs I used to watch daily back in fourth grade. I think that was in 1977.

[@franlooving4203]

@@mariorodriguez5609 Very neat. Thanks for sharing.

[@laurilawson4368]

Awsome!!everyone in America should know our history....

[@elaineburnett5230]

History is a narrative that always demands review, remembering and retelling...

[@laserbeam002]

FDR was our greatest president in the modern era. My father and uncles were farmers and textile workers when the depression hit. FDR started programs that gave them jobs and that held them over till the economy improved. They all started feeling better about their futures when FDR spoke on the radio. We could use another FDR today.

[@starliner1649A]

Very nice. Thanks from Brasil.

[@tiffanyjoyce461]

14:30 seconds...🤣 Holy holy JESUS... I couldn't stop laughing... A true sign of what's coming with humor.

[@donnarogers7732]

My late husband was born on DDay 1949. We always had a Patriotic Party on that day. This year 2024,is the 80th Anniversary of D Day. Please won't you join me and Honor the thousands who lost their lives that Day to turn the tide against Hitlers Germany and led to the end of the War 80 years ago? This country and Europe plan many Celebrations in Remembrance of this Campaign. We must Never forget the sacrifices our American and Allied Forces Sacrificed for our Freedom and American Democracy. God Bless America!♥️🤍💙🇺🇲🙏✌️

[@michaelluczak3019]

Where do they get this film....and music?

[@warmonger8799]

Awesome ❤❤❤

[@annehersey9895]

The GI bill was one of the very best Social Program of many great Social programs that FDR got passed! And to think that so many politicians were against his policies to help the people! Our taxes go to the government and we should get our return. Thanks to FDR, I’m now able to get Social Security that helps me get by in retirement!

[@JGLeber]

Heaviest fighting and causalities for American Army was After Bulge and into Germany. Germans fought hard.Cities and towns were defended hard. No picnic for soldiers and replacements untrained!!!

[@karlahemphill3414]

I love the narrator's voice. He did Forensic Files or Cold Case files . I can't remember.😯

[@katiezee2]

the FF

[@annehersey9895]

You forgot to show the Women’s Professional Baseball League!!! Come on! They had some great players!

[@katiezee2]

'The boys were coming home... all except 400 thousand'.

[@rameshbhattacharjee4374]

The Four Hundred Thousand Had To Die So The Freedom Loving People Could Live Free, Remember Liberty, Equality And Fraternity Can Only Be Defended And Protected By The Courage And Blood Of The Free World's Young Men

[@ramblingsadrift6477]

Because of THAT 400,000 ...your ass sits at a keyboard..to express your ignorance..

[@user-ke5du3jm1w]

can you upload sports vhs videos?

[@jasonrush6701]

This year was building buildings pretty good back then enough for a bomber to hit it and not be detonated from the basement up

[@captainoblivious_yt]

1:59 That's very high-tech

[@rogerhuber3133]

Strange.....Col. Paul Tibbets took off in his B-29........but those scenes were a C-97. WTF? With all the footage of B-29's and all you couldn't show one? Sad!

[@topofthetower1872]

Considering the historic nature of that mission...yeah! That is a pretty unforgivable mistake to make on this documentary.

[@philjr5714]

Omg there has yet to be a mayor as amazing (character wise)as LaGuardia. He needs more than an airport named after him. That was such a great job reading that comic. No wonder they loved the guy. Just be yourself politically and I will support you. Sorry not the way a certain someone was himself but I’m proud of him for showing us who he really is. That’s all you need. Transparency. It helps.

[@wayback872]

Longest intro in history

[@arnenelson4495]

Now that was rich, trying to break the wine bottle- well built plane!

[@JGLeber]

Hail to the St Louis Browns!!!

[@LaPotraBellaca]

Never knew how Mussolini died before today

[@patchescessna7348]

Interesting Enola Gay B-29 in takeoff.....

[@johnrudy9404]

For a man who seemed relatively intelligent, FDR just didnt get how much a threat Stalin and the USSR was to the world. Roosevelt was lucky to have had both the Depression to come up with nice sounding programs, that boosted morale, but in reality were questionable in effect. He also initiated an attack upon business, gutting many firms with what were essentially punitive taxes and regulations. WW2 then made him seem like a saint. I dont think he had the general knowledge of how things may have been affected by his decisions. I wish Theodore Roosevelt could have been in office. He would have understood the Russian threat.

[@shibolinemress8913]

What happened to the women who'd lost husbands and fathers in the war, and had no other means of support? Were they allowed to keep their former war jobs?

[@gat2asp919]

Socal Security. That's how it originally started. For war widows. Until it became a Socal safety net for everyone.

[@stevewheatley243]

No they made em get remarried.😏

[@Kirmukarmu]

All this people dead now

[@steveweinstein3222]

Not my mother, WWII vet, still going strong.

[@tomservo56954]

@@steveweinstein3222 And my mother...90 in August

[@peterhamlinhamlin8908]

Visit and VA hospital or VFW facility. Some WW11 vets are there happy for visitors with real history to tell.

[@Mipty]

10:00 You will find a pre 9/11 test.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

Thanks to the 22nd Amendment, FDR is the greatest president that America will ever have.

[@davideckwright820]

FDR was are greatest president

[@johnrudy9404]

Nope...

[@carywest9256]

Proofread what you text!

[@njhawksworth1588]

Ads for a forty year old product you didn't even make? For shame.

[@JGLeber]

Japanese did not surrender after second Bomb.But because of Fear of Red Army moving From kurile Island which the conquered down to Japanese mainland and doing to Japanese what they did to Germany.Level the damn place. Tough as the japanese were, they knew Red Army did to Japanese Manchuria Army, they would do All of Japan. No complete dummies Finally.

[@JGLeber]

Dont forget Red Army destroyed 80 prt Cent of Wehrmacht on Eastern Front. No D Day if Not for Soviet Union. Period.FDR was great war leader But Depression was ended by WW 2 not anything FDR did in thirties before war.😅

[@barrywithers8913]

What a Great Nation .. GOD BLESS AMERICA .. TRUMP 2020

[@LJ-ht4zs]

Don't mention bone spurs trump with people who bravely served our Nation - under the best President ever FDR, whose wife Eleanor traveled across the nation, speaking in person, ministering to the sick and wounded and wrote a daily column. When you brought up traitor trump my stomach turned.

[@carywest9256]

It's TRUMP 2024