War Comes To America (1942)

Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964)
ARC Identifier 36073 / Local Identifier 111-OF-7 1942
War Comes to America
This motion picture film examines world events that pulled the U.S. into World War II. Reel 1 dramatizes the early settling of the U.S., the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and a winter at Valley Forge. It explains the colonists' thirst for independence. Reel 2 dramatizes later European migrations to the U.S. stressing the strength brought to the U.S. by her immigrants. It shows luxury items (cars, radios, etc.) which contribute to U.S. life. It also depicts educational facilities, recreational activities (including many sport scenes), and prohibition era scenes. In Reel 3, U.S. troops man trenches in France in 1917. Crowds in New York City celebrate the armistice. Secretary of State Henry Stimson denounces Japan's march into Manchuria. Shows the Bonus March on Washington, D.C., and breadlines in the 1930s. Adolf Hitler watches a military display in Berlin. Haile Selassie visits the front in Ethiopia in 1935. Senator Hiram Johnson speaks for the Neutrality Act of 1935. German planes bomb cities, and street fights flare during the Spanish Civil War. Shanghai is bombed in 1937. Gallup polls find U.S. citizens isolationists. In Reel 4, Emperor Hirohito inspects Japanese troops. Representative Andrew J. May urges arming before the House Military Affairs Committee. Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison asks the Naval Affairs Committee for funds. Maps illustrate Nazi conquests of 1939. Hitler ridicules President Roosevelt's peace proposal before the Reichstag. Warsaw is bombed. French artillery on the Maginot Line fires. President Franklin Roosevelt requests Congress to amend neutrality laws. Senators Gerald P. Nye and Elbert D. Thomas voice opposing views. The Gallup poll finds citizens united to amend the laws. In Reel 5, Dean Acheson sums up arms embargo legislation. Maps illustrate Nazi aggression in Western Europe. Refugees clog French roads and FDR denounces Italy's entry into the war. Hitler, Hermann Goring, and Admiral Karl Doenitz, receive the French surrender; Nazis parade through Paris. Secretary of State Cordell Hull asks for hemispheric solidarity at Havana in 1940. FDR asks Congress for military funds and National Guard units, and Edward R. Murrow reports during a London air raid. In Reel 6, Axis powers sign the Berlin Pact in 1940. Mussolini and Hitler report to their people; Charles Lindbergh pleads isolationism; Wendell Willkie asks for aid to England. The Gallup poll echoes this view; FDR speaks to Congress on lend-lease. Lend-lease material is unloaded at several ports. In Reel 7, Stimson and Wendell Willkie ask that merchant ships be armed. Saburo Kurusu meets Secretary of State Hull in Washington, D.C. Hull sums up Japan's conditions for peace. Pearl Harbor is attacked. Draftees are inducted.

[@jackpinesavage1628]

My uncle Keith was a Lt. j.g. in the U.S.N. during WW2. He flew a Corsair fighter off the U.S.S. Hornet (CV-12). He did not talk about it. He was a good man, always with a smile and a laugh. He lived until he was 90. I miss him.

[@thepitpatrol]

He was a legend then!

[@Massexec]

He didn’t do a god damn thing in the war I’m pretty sure of that!

[@jucadvgv3449]

had a great-uncle captured in, i believe, battle of the bulge (but it may have been just during that general time frame, because i got the info from my grandfather). anyway, due to mistreatment, starvation, etc., as a p.o.w., he had to origionally use crutches when he came home but eventually degenerated to the point where he was in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

[@naguerea]

Bless him.

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

USNR?

[@fob1xxl]

I was born April 6, 1945. Six days before President Roosevelt's death and a little over 4 months before the war . I will always be thankful to the men that served and gave their lives so that I could have a life by keeping America safe. These men were all heroes.

[@spymaine89]

you are brainwashed war came the rothchild bankers got richer, the US kept the tyrant gov it had , instead of the hitler tyrant. i was never as stupid as you. in grade school the teacher said other countries brainwash students , tell them there nation is good all others bad. i said to teacher, '' thats what you do to us.'' do nothing just what your told , unless the gov wants more, then you ''get it'' ,,,2008 no laws for bankers. , forced health ins take money before you get it.. no choice, i paid for nothing. never used a doctor. much more , learn to read......

[@Dominiclovinlife]

@fob1xxl MR. 1945, DO NOT FORGET to HONOR all THE WOMAN ❤ who served in WORLD WAR TWO, and ON THE HOME FRONT, Taking CARE of all the children of LOVE ones that were missing in WAR! ❤ THIS was NOT a man's war! MEN, WOMAN, AND CHILDREN were fighting the Nazi's and The Rising Sun all over the world!! MY lovely Seniors ♥️ that I take CARE OF from those day's most Definitely are proud to see Victory in that WAR!! But it took EVERYTHING, EVERYONE, and TWO big ass BOMBS to finally END IT!!

[@ainhoasamford8046]

Films de propaganda yanqui, recordad que EEUU es el país que es hoy gracias al imperio español que les ayudó a luchar contra los ingleses y abastecio de armas, municiones, mosquetes, uniformes, comida y demás pertrechos para seguir luchando por la independencia y como dijo Thomas Jefferson, " La historia y la independencia de EEUU se escribe en español ", poco os duró el recuerdo que después atacaron a los españoles los mismos que les ayudaron a librarse del yugo inglés , para que después convertirse en los mismos piratas que ellos, robando territorios, esclavizando y matando a los nativos de los territorios como los de Cuba, Pto Rico y Filipinas y han seguido en el tiempo haciendo lo mismo que los ingleses, sois una nación bélicosa, desgraciadamente para ustedes algún día caereis como todos los imperios

[@upulor744]

It must have been surreal growing up surrounded by heroes. They're becoming more and more scarce. And that saddens me.

[@martinbrode7131]

America safe? 😂I hear hin laughing - this man called Donald Trump.

[@capecod50s]

Amazing history lesson. Why wasn’t I shown this in history class in school in the 1960’s. This would have benefited me far more than dry history books.

[@christianlibrul]

Why didn't you learn how to read?

[@infantinofan]

@@christianlibrul Hahahaha

[@user-xg3uy6hq9g]

because its full of lies. leaves out the internment of japanese americans

[@fhi5y]

This needs to be shown to Trump and other idiots in Washington. Only blind cannot see what is coming ( Russia, Iran, North Korea and yes China )

[@greasyhitchball]

I've learned over the years that teachers aren't the brightest and the best. When I grew up in the 60s, teachers refused to think out of the box.

[@michelangelobuonarroti916]

In the 1940s, Americans fought fascism and dictatorship in a unified defense of democracy. Many gave their lives in this effort. In the 2020s, many Americans now vote in support of fascism and dictatorship.

[@LoveOneAnotherHeSaid]

Yeah, but are they Commies, replacing one form of totalitarian madness for the same thing on the Left... ?

[@truthadvocacy]

Amercian capitalists fought with Russian communists against Germany, but neither of them had "democracy" credentials.

[@kindnessfirst9670]

What is a democracy credential?@@truthadvocacy

[@kindnessfirst9670]

What kind of idiots vote for a candidate who says he wants to take away their vote. Or who ignores the results of the voting. If you don't want your right to vote simply refrain from voting- why act to deny others their right to vote? People in cults do crazy things.

[@lordeden2732]

The biggest joke is that America had a large Nazi group supported by its Citizens then after America came late as usual to war ad before

[@ariel340]

This movie is the best WWII background documentary I've seen.

[@johnmc3862]

Wow.

[@docachna]

This is in no way a documentary. It is an American propaganda film, just like Germany, and Japan made their own propaganda films. We may call it by more polite names, but it is a propaganda film nonetheless.

[@Napolean46]

​@@docachnathat's your opinion but that does not change the fact that this Is a great documentary

[@MelanatedOracleGoddess]

Exactly America was built off of the backs of enslaved people who were taken from their home lands & displaced! Brought to America to be enslaved! This is definitely propaganda, people were forced to build America up by being murdered, raped, hung, burned, bombed & massacred. Why is this film not talking about how the blood & sweat that these people had to shed was at the hands of Amerikkka!!!! This film angers me. @@docachna

[@MelanatedOracleGoddess]

WE ARE CURRENTLY ON STOLEN LAND!!!!

[@williamwagner7511]

Under God was added in early 1954 when I was in 1st grade.

[@-oiiio-3993]

The motto 'In God We Trust did not appear on U.S. currency (banknotes) until 1957, against Eisenhower's initial objections. Its first appearance on U.S. coinage was the Two Cent Bronze of 1864-73. Though it was added to most (but not all) U.S. coinage from 1866 onward (including the Five Cent 'Nickel' of 1866-83), 'In God We Trust' does not appear anywhere on the popular 'Buffalo (bison) Nickel' of 1913 -38.

[@RonOside]

You'll never see this in schools or on TV again.

[@kindnessfirst9670]

When was it on TV? It was long outdated by the time TV became popular.

[@roundtowerDC]

This is the seventh and last in the Why We Fight Series, produced in 1945. At that point one of the main purposes was to fight "war weariness," as many in the US had grown quite tired of wartime restrictions.

[@jimdavison4077]

That's right, the US had a sizable percentage of people who wanted nothing to do with the war in Europe at all, then you had the America First movement which was headed by pro fascist who wanted to side with Germany. Henry Ford, Joseph Kennedy are just a couple pro Fascists from the era.

[@jimmyguitar2933]

Then why does it say "1942" on the KZbin caption? Can't believe nuthin' from nobody no more.

[@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid]

The date on this Video is incorrect. This Video is from the Frank Capra series “Why We Fight,” the first Volume of which was released in 1942. But this is the 7th and FINAL Volume/Episode of “Why We Fight,” which was released in 1945, just prior to Winning the War.

[@steve-ph9yg]

I noticed right away it had D Day landing beach footage at the beginning.

[@Nepthy66]

maybe, except for normandy footage at 13 minute mark...1944...

[@sonnysantana5454]

it must be nice to have google

[@kathleenkendalljacksgrandm6902]

Video took Under God out of the Pledge of Allegiance. I know for a fact we said One Nation Under God.

[@Casper1tfg]

@@kathleenkendalljacksgrandm6902 The phrase 'under God' wasn't added to the Pledge until June of 1954. This video was well before that date.

[@ronman2221]

History is repeating itself we need to watch

[@jhf99991]

Yep its the same stuff just now its the gay & ukraine flag not the US flag 🙄

[@lifted.5916]

@@jhf99991 The today's events of Russia invading ukraine and other countries are the similar events of ww2. Especially, china and north korea in the pacific and Iran in the middle east. Currently we are like the pre-ww2 stages, I bet you probably go to Nazi conventions in NYC back in the late 1930's. 🤡

[@johnmc3862]

No it isn’t, there hasn’t been world war since the 1940’s.

[@johnmc3862]

@@jhf99991it isn’t a word war. 🙄

[@johnmc3862]

@@jhf99991 What!

[@carl77242]

Love watching this thank for sharing this video a great Documentary I live back in that moment born in 42 😊

[@RandysFiftySevenChevy]

Our greatest generation is rolling in their graves after seeing what today looks like.

[@LoveOneAnotherHeSaid]

The greatest generation is the ones that are alive.

[@truthadvocacy]

@@LoveOneAnotherHeSaid Greatest generation of swine.😂

[@valentinius62]

This war was the reason things are the way they are today. The Socialists and Communists were the main benefactors. Nationalism and Patriotism became naughty words (but they'll roll those out occasionally for political purposes).

[@bobbymcmillin928]

Yes, the greatest generation - the one responsible for WW2 to begin with, the one that produced these films claiming all people were to rule - yet acted on the most racist vile beliefs, the one who simultaneously needed women to produce its weapons - only to shackle her back in its kitchen once they returned, the one responsible for two nuclear weapons being deployed and escalating the most consequential geopolitical and military stand off in history. Yes we should all be concerned what makes them role in their graves. I'm proud of what we accomplished in WW2, but to subscribe to their innocence and some perceived higher moral ground - is ignorant at best, dangerous at worst.

[@Johnnycdrums]

We should listen to these men.

[@Rich1ab]

Interesting how the Pledge of Allegiance sounds different without "the under God" section.

[@alangray9117]

That was added during Eisenhower just like "In God We Trust" on paper money. Coins already had had it.

[@joeydog999]

Can thank our POS GOVT for removing the UNDER GOD..To this day we STILL have COMMIES in our GOV'T. My opinion, time to weed them out[ hint ]

[@michaelbyrnee9584]

Yes, the original version sounds much better.

[@-oiiio-3993]

@@alangray9117 The motto 'In God We Trust was added to U.S. currency (banknotes) in 1957, against Eisenhower's initial objections. Its first appearance on U.S. coinage was the Two Cent Bronze of 1864-73. Though it was added to most (but not all) U.S. coinage from 1866 onward (including the Five Cent 'Nickel' of 1866-83), 'In God We Trust' does not appear anywhere on the popular 'Buffalo (bison) Nickel' of 1913 -38.

[@alangray9117]

@@-oiiio-3993 oh yeah I know but it was on hard currency way before that. I believe the first "In God We Trust" was on the Peace Dollar in 1921 which was also the last year of the Morgan Dollar.

[@jakobheidenreich5]

I love watching these “Why We Fight” films

[@bearsagainstevil]

When Churchill heard japan had attacked pearl harbour he said he slept the sleep of the saved because he knew the allies especially the English speaking world when they were together would win world war two, best wishes from the uk,

[@truthadvocacy]

US/Brit. didn't win the land war. Soviet Russia did.

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

Also he got extra sozzled that night no doubt...🍾🍷🍸🍹🍺🥂🍻🥃🎶

[@johnclarke5459]

As a kid I was on the Movie Squad. Showed the films relentlessly. Was a true believer! Not a whisper of Dug out Doug! Child of the Great Depression Class of 1933

[@Page-Hendryx]

Regardng the "Dugout Doug" remark - I suppose you think a four-star general was supposed to be in the front line with his troops? It doesn't work that way, pal.

[@davidb2206]

@@Page-Hendryx Yes, he should, like General Patton. Mac made the huge mistake of only going over to visit the troops on Bataan ONCE ... and even then only briefly, to an HQ. That's a poor example for any Army officer and how he got the nickname Dugout Dug. Can you imagine Hitler ever allowing him to flee from Corregidor during an ongoing battle?!

[@hildablanco1591]

One thing for sure when everything was made in USA the world was progressive and luxurious

[@busterbuster8193]

Amen ... and Amen ...

[@james-pierre7634]

Oh really, and when exactly was that? Then we can discuss your illogical claims.

[@jimdavison4077]

Everything was made in the USA? When was that? USA produced some stuff but not everything. Take the standard four wheel drive military truck that Stalin claimed was the biggest assistance the Soviets received during the war. Based of the Dodge body almost half a million were made in Canada yet the US takes credit for saving the USSR who eventually went on to do the heavy lifting in WW2 accounting for 75% of German troop losses.

[@C77-C77]

@@jimdavison4077 Hahaha who cares if the Soviets took out more Germans than the US. They also lost over 20 million soldiers doing it. How many did Germany lose fighting them? The US had Japan to deal with, had them on the backfoot starting mid-1942, and utterly destroyed them and forced their surrender mostly alone. The war wasn't all about defeating Germany for the US, and they still managed (along with Britain and Canada) to kick the Axis out of Africa, invade Italy which caused them to surrender, pulled off D-Day, and pushed the Germans in the West back to their borders where they surrendered. The US did more "heavy lifting" worldwide in WWII than any nation.

[@lepanhman]

When people were proud of their flag ,country & history

[@cal4207]

Yeah but that's back when America was mostly White along with Europe

[@josephagnello9335]

@@cal4207 You are obtuse! Quit whining and do something w upur fetid life!!!

[@Dr.Pepper001]

​@Jeepus Chrysler -- We'll see how well you like it under your socialist task masters. You'll be begging for those nasty capitalists to take over again. So take your communist shitrag and shove it.

[@colioscosmin1254]

How stoopid to be to be proud you're an american?

[@colioscosmin1254]

When people use #slavacocaine

[@maureenmckenna5220]

A comment was made about how thin people were back then. They actually were just normal, as I saw it growing up. I didn’t know anyone who was overweight. Not one friend was even close to heavy. No child, no woman, no man. And, in my opinion, here’s why. People ate three meals a day. Most of those meals were homemade, and eaten at home. They were not filled with fats or sugar. Eating out was rare and a treat. There was no such thing as fast food, or snacking. And, people worked physically hard, and walked everywhere. Very few owned cars. And, remember that these people grew up during the Great Depression, when they were genuinely hungry. Food was cherished and not thrown away. We are what we eat, and what we don’t eat. More and more people are fasting to control unwanted pounds. Unheard of back then. No need, because food was treated as nourishment. When I came home from school, there was no extra snack or treat. We had eaten at 1:00 and dinner was at 6. We got changed and went out to play. We played outside for two hours every day, mostly, rain or shine. When we sat down for dinner at 6, we were genuinely hungry. Sometimes we loved what we had for dinner and sometimes we didn’t, but we ate that dinner because we were hungry and there was nothing else. After dinner, there was almost never dessert. If there was, it was homemade in my house,and so appreciated because it was so unusual. My mom made pie, cake about once a week. It went quickly with six people to feed, and there were no chips, pretzels, crackers in between. Eat good food, eliminate snacks, mostly, make dessert a special treat, and try to walk everywhere.

[@speedysteve9121]

Read the Secret Covenant. Poison food is the plan.

[@johnshields6852]

Born in 1960 Boston we grew up we'd pledge allegiance to the USA every morning at school 1966, the country was proud and very patriotic, unlike today. 🇺🇸

[@tony3313]

Aside from the Vietnam fiasco and the divisiveness that ensued: Riots, massive anti -war protests, burning draft cards, assassination of political and social leaders. Yes, avery proud and patriotic time.

[@Dovietail]

Interesting that when describing the number of people under Japanese control the narrator says "a 1000 million" rather than "a billion." In this era, a billion had virtually no meaning because a million seemed like so many of anything it could hardly be taken in.

[@hcunn]

The film was mostly for American audiences, but even so they wished to avoid confusion for any foreign audiences. In the USA's "short scale," "1,000,000,000 is "one billion", but in the "long scale" of most European countries, including Britain at that time, 1,000,000,000 was "one milliard", and "one billion" was 1,000,000,000,000. Britain would gradually switch over to the American "short scale" after WW2. For more detail, Wikipedia has an article on "billion."

[@reFocusZone]

Good picking up on that, and good reasoning as to why it was done. Another factor could be that many foreign languages also count higher numbers that way when translated word for word… so more people with English as a second language could better understand.

[@reFocusZone]

@@hcunn Exactly, I was thinking the same! And here’s the link for others to the Wiki article you mention: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion?wprov=sfti1

[@allenschmitz9644]

@@hcunn thank drunk Winston.

[@globaladdict]

no, its because in Japanese, everything is based of 10,000. thats just the way it is. 100,000 = juu man, 10 10,000s. hyaku man = 100 10,000's etc. but later on, they adopted the word ichi oku, for one billion. many you guys could actually just learn the language or something lol.

[@annpeerkat2020]

19:00 "we hate war" doesn't sit well over the years since ww2. What did eisenhower say about the rise of the military industrial complex?

[@hemming57]

There was an old joke during the depression, "America will be the first country to go to the poor house in an automobile"

[@joehovanec1985]

Will Rogers would say that.

[@truthadvocacy]

Even the dirt poor in the US have a car.

[@thomasloks]

All gone. By 2021 brought down from the Top.

[@williamshortstack6204]

To the Republic !!!

[@jennifermcclain4478]

The end of the video says "End of Part One." Does anyone know if there is Part 2 available? & its link? I enjoyed this immensely & would like to watch the 2nd part. Thanks!

[@debra1363]

There are 7 or 8 parts.I have the DVD set but haven't watched it for a long time.

[@catherinelee3298]

God bless our founding fathers. They risked it all. ❤🇺🇸

[@kathleenkendalljacksgrandm6902]

Video took Under God out of the Pledge of Allegiance. I know for a fact we said One Nation Under God.

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

@@kathleenkendalljacksgrandm6902 Yes, I saw that too. But why? Maybe the person posting this, removed it.

[@breth8159]

at 1.03 children's stating the Pledge of Allegiance at Eugene Field Elementary School Glendale California .... building torn down decades ago

[@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO]

Sad that most schools nowadays no longer say the Pledge. No more civics classes. No more patriotism (or very little). Now it's all political correctness, leftist and liberal indoctrination.

[@BillyBobBoBo]

Pure history!!! Loved it!!

[@PinkLlamaGrl]

Right! Fvck the indigenous ppl whose land they stole.

[@pelly8830]

PURE PROPAGANDA!

[@cmerton]

PURE BULLSHIT.

[@Concorde1059]

"Pure history"? Did you miss the part at the start exalting the equality of all Americans in the 40s? Which was then followed by "the negros picking cotton in the southern sun" so nvm you're right It's history, but it's not pure. Important to filter it properly.

[@jimdavison4077]

Nothing pure about it. The way they portray US society is pure fantasy. Also they way they portray the US desire for isolation is another fantasy given US actions in Asia leading up to the Pacific war as the US was fighting Japan in China from 1940 onwards. US actions led to Japan's attack on Dec 07th and was not a surprise to anyone. In Europe the US invested heavily in Germany in the 1930's and could have placed an embargo on imports of fuel stopping Germany's invasion of other nations but did not do anything to stop it. In fact for 1939 and 1940 the US treated Germany and the allied nations exactly the same, cash and carry terms for goods sold.

[@TheGadgetHound]

Around minute 17 is a overview of U.S. challenges pre-WWII. An interesting time to let history soak in -- it puts problems into perspective (particularly with Coronavirus). Not to mention the rise of fascism in America and other countries.

[@reFocusZone]

The word “fascism” is misspelled here, it should read “marxism”… “which has led to the rise of ‘left wing Marxism’ in America and other countries today”.

[@michaeladams9641]

You forgot the rise of communism

[@Massexec]

I don’t give a shit you’re pathetic for this useless information.

[@Matt_from_Florida]

@@michaeladams9641 Communism came into fashion about 15 years before fascism.

[@gopcongress]

All those enemies are not as bad as our current enemy. If we don't restore our ciuntry we will experience greater horror than anyone can imagine.

[@bobprescott]

well said

[@annpeerkat2020]

are you talking about murdoch's fox news?

[@bobprescott]

@@annpeerkat2020 I just enjoy watching old films

[@annpeerkat2020]

@@bobprescott ahh...sorry! I thought you were agreeing with the "gopcongress" bot banging on about the "current enemy".

[@bobprescott]

i agree

[@peterroberts2737]

I always wonder what the American black troops thought of this great fight for democracy when they were treated like sub Humans in a large part of the USA

[@juliemerritt8082]

Peter you know I saw an interview with a black veteran, he told them how he knew he was doing the right thing was when they captured SS troops one of them bragged that when they invaded The US they were going to put non Arians in concentration camps. this should answer your stupid question

[@skhotzim_bacon]

Julie Merritt that story is bullshit and you know it

[@michelleayres5608]

Even in the Civil War when they got no pay for it, black soldiers fought bravely for this country. Because they are Americans and love this country.

[@jaminova_1969]

@@michelleayres5608 Crispus Attucks, an African-American, was the first casualty of the American Revolution. Black soldiers fought in that war too!

[@waverunner7063]

@@juliemerritt8082 There were black people living in Germany during WW2. You have no idea.

[@glennhopkins2643]

All these films are great. I really like the one about England.

[@buffetlover458]

First saw this on Turner Classic Movies, on the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. Would that our children were taught these things. The youth of today wouldn't understand Civic Virtue if it came up and bit them on the ass.

[@phyllisbentley5067]

All By Design. That's one of the top reasons why the DNC has lost over 1,000 elected office seats just in the last 6 years and nearly 1,400 in the last 10 !

[@davidturner7590]

Ah, yes, someone who still used that remnant of the subjunctive in English--"Would that..."

[@waynebent4543]

Interesting, "We are not fighting just for a country but an idea." So, since that idea has been systematically destroyed since WWII, what do we fight for now? Nothing?

[@Redman147]

I used to own this video on VHS. I even owned a copy of The Longest Day in color.

[@stgenterprisesinc.7143]

My Mom took me to see the Longest Day at a matinee. That's when I found out what my Dad did in the war.

[@GrantDWilliams82]

Gotta love how he says that the depression, after a false prosperity, is "needless." This is like saying that a drug addict's withdrawals are needless. That he's just depressed. That the problem is that he's not happy while he detoxes. Even though all that unhappiness is completely necessary. It's totally not needless. It's totally not the problem. It's totally the cure.

[@Aad1942]

A distant time reflecting over today´s events...

[@tsbjelland]

The release Date for this movie was June 14, 1945. The title is wrong!

[@model-man7802]

Im so proud of my family from Ireland an Cecily. Worked our asses off and great thanks to my ancestors

[@richcrispin526]

1942??? Not with Omaha Beach film (1944).

[@LoveOneAnotherHeSaid]

Sicily... Bud?

[@billhuber2964]

Mydad was a radarman S/2 on the u.s.s. john d. henley in the pacific. He seen a lot of action.

[@bonniegaither3994]

“The greatest good for the greatest number”. What a concept. Not anymore 😢🇺🇸

[@markenge9348]

It's called Utilitarianism. Some say it's the ethics of expediency as opposed to principles though the statement itself is a principle.

[@hemming57]

2/3 of the world's car's were owned by American's in 1942, amazing!

[@allenschmitz9644]

Ford loved Hitler.vs/ Stalin.

[@choossuck7653]

Do you have any videos of Stony Brook?

[@christianguenther1276]

If, as the Constitution says Liberty and Justice for all, why did the U.S have the institution of slavery? Pretty hypocritical if you ask me.😡

[@jaminova_1969]

Don't you mean to say, "Thank God America abolished it"? Well, all except for Human Trafficking on the Border, Slavery in north Afrika, and liberal run businesses exploiting "forced labor" overseas.

[@cashewnuttel9054]

Because they were earning loads of cash from it.

[@davidb2206]

The whole world had slavery at the time, going back to Moses and earlier. The white world was the first on the planet to END it. It still goes on at the Biden-Human-Trafficking Cartel Border, in Africa, and in Islamic countries.

[@65gtotrips]

I wonder if draftee #158 has a story, a book, a movie, KIA, wounded, or not ?

[@terfle1106]

Looking attoday... Seems we've lost the dream somewhat ! Or are we in a corrupt nightmare ? Perhaps we will wake up... i pray !

[@danielf1313]

A publication date of 1942 seems a tad early considering how the introductory voiceover mentions combat in Italy and the African Theater?

[@filipinainaforeignland3552]

It is a documentary produced over 80 years ago - deal with it

[@-oiiio-3993]

The 'Why We Fight' series started with #1 in 1942. This is #7, produced in 1945.

[@CarlosAlbertoAguiarPereiraJuni]

Amazing vídeo 👍

[@harlandfriendofgod6108]

Notice how patriotic everyone was; to be a coward or a traitor should be a serious punishable heinous crime!

every single insurrectionist on 1/6 needs to be doing 20 minimum. all of them. make an example out of them that you don't turn on your own country that has blessed you this much.

[@cashewnuttel9054]

No because that would go against freedom of speech.

[@jeffmoore9487]

We were the Arsenal of Democracy. Smashing fascism was very popular.

[@Kelsmith2]

Punishing people for speaking out against the government was literally what Hitler did. Being able to speak out against the government is what separates us from the fascists and dictators.

[@sandozpop6017]

oaa? ... mexicans, liberians, jews?

[@jameskillen7842]

I have a question, please? At the end of the video, 58:56 they explain out a timeline where the Japanese are bombing Pearl Harbor at 1320 hours on December 7th while the Japanese ambassador/envoy are enroute to the state department? That's.....not what happened at all?

[@oldvet7547]

The title entry needs to be corrected. "Why We Fight:War comes to America" was produced and released in 1945, not 1942.

[@oldvet7547]

Definitely not 1942. There is film from D Day June 1944.

[@yomama8873]

Thank you 🤩🤩💖

[@martincook318]

And I've got a Mint copy off the Rachmaninov fourth Piano Concerto with Rachmaninov at Recorded on Saturday December 20th 1941 just two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbour and in 1943 Rachmaninov died and the Recording was Reissued under licence by His Master's Voice in Golden Treasury off Immortal Performances Record Number CSLP-515

[@十蘭コメント]

Thanks.

[@dennyjay4252]

I look at the country now in November 2022 😢😢

[@robotrix]

Saw part if a film made by this same division in which they show a Black Pastor reading a section of Mein Kampf to the congregation. Does anyone know the name of that film?

[@Tipsandtricksforpros]

I honor my grandpa who went from Oregon to the pacific and his uncle who died liberating Leningrad in the red army

[@markbeaudry2469]

The oratory and music reminded me of Saint Patrick's Church on Christmas Day. The United States has been both good and evil, and in this conflict the United States was the preponderance of good.

[@dr.a.995]

I notice the arm salute to the Pledge had by now been changed. It used to look like the gesture adopted by the Nazis.

[@Casper1tfg]

True. There is an old Hopalong Cassidy movie where at the end they are saying the Pledge and they do show them giving the Nazi style salute (or the Bellamy salute as it was known) but there have been other versions of the salute as well. This was changed however in 1942 after Congress said it to closely resembled the Nazi salute.

[@-oiiio-3993]

@@Casper1tfg Adolph copied it from his 'bestie', Benito.

[@kryptonarie6367]

Did anyone catch that "under God" wasn't in The Pledge Of Allegiance To The United States in beginning of this film? Under God wasn't added in until 1954, and it should've never been added, especially since we claim to be a nation whose Constitution grants us the freedom of or from religion! Today in 2022 we have over zealous conservatives trying to force their religious beliefs on the masses, as well as wanting Christianity back in our public schools and in our state and federal governments. The claim that the U.S. is and has always been a Christian nation are simply false, because in his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association Thomas Jefferson said, “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.” -The First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. There’s no “legal age” you have to reach to exercise your First Amendment freedoms. They are guaranteed to you the day you’re born. There’s also no citizenship requirement for First Amendment protection. If you’re in the U.S., you have freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition.

[@davidb2206]

Posting the Ten Commandments in a school is not going to hurt you. It doesn't mean you have to "get saved" and baptized just by looking at it. It is a valuable historical, ancient code.

[@kryptonarie6367]

@@davidb2206 Having the Ten Commandments posted in U.S. public schools is a clear violation of the U.S. Constitution and the 1st Amendment; Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof and etc. The Ten Commandments may be valuable historical history to you as a Christian or a Jew, but it's not ancient code for Muslims, Hindus, Atheists and etc. Which means then it's forced religious indoctrination and it violates the 1st Amendment's establishment clause. When it comes to something as personal as religion, then parents should be deciding what religious materials their child/ren should learn, not state legislatures! The Ten Commandments may be a sacred text in the "Jewish and Christian" faiths, but no legislative recitation of a supposed secular purpose should blind any American to that fact that in our country, freedom of and from religion, it is a foundational pillar of our rights as Americans. Moreover, the Supreme Court decided in Stone v. Graham (1980), that the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools/spaces was/is clearly religious and therefore found unconstitutional. Conservative snowflakes have nothing better to do, but try to force their minority beliefs on all Americans and try to whitewash and/or rewrite American history! For example, the 400 years of atrocities their ancestors committed against Black African people-people who were violently taken against their will from their homelands, and forcibly sold into generational slavery for American profits. I don't know, but it sure appears conservatives are trying to sell their delusional constituents a mixture of authoritarian rule and 1950-ish style patriarchal Christian theocracy that can never happen. It unbelievable that conservatives think, lies deception, fascism and etc. is how Americans are going to give them back the presidency? 😂

[@davidb2206]

@@kryptonarie6367 How utterly ignorant. I am NOT either a Christian or a Jew. YOU are a DUMBASS who ASSumes a lot. The Africans were captured and sold by OTHER AFRICANS who had nothing else to sell. DUMBASS.

[@Kelsmith2]

@@davidb2206My money is on you throwing a hissy fit if Muslim scripture was shoved in your face.

[@BenSmith-jw8zy]

And you democrats are literally watching Biden and co BRINGING IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM, and you dont even see it! Thats the thing about Christians, they DONT force their views on you. I have never met a climate change nut that didnt think if you didnt agree you were evil, or should be jailed. The hivemind is on the LEFT, freedom OF or FROM religion, and INDIVIDUAL freedom, IS ON THE RIGHT, with us "stupid conservatives"@@kryptonarie6367

[@allenschmitz9644]

Look how crafty they opened beer cans...eco friendly tin cans.

[@AnthonyGarlic-tr9br]

The canteen is still available.

[@ashdallis6701]

Lol 5:22 unless you’re a black man !

[@davidb2206]

Tuskegee airmen.

[@TheKeenTribe]

President Eisenhower added "Under God" in The Pledge Of Allegiance" in the 50s

[@norrisbarnes6136]

It's funny they said all men are created equal and most if not all of them owned slaves

[@britishgamingnerdbgn8031]

1:00 the exact second they stopped that in schools, they lost their freedom.

[@faktumstream1beatz335]

BritishGamingNerd BGN "we will force them into freedom! We will indoctrinate their children into liberty!"

[@ChazMcGutter]

Faktum Stream1Beatz The freedom to have to be forced to pledge your allegiance to the government. Freedom is truly dead in America.

[@juliemerritt8082]

No Chaz it is not. When they stopped they lost their freedom, now Chaz I say again you are free to go live in England.

[@sambrownski5449]

Freedom in America is dead nowadays

[@roymarius1634]

sam brownski idiot.

[@aquillafleetwood4209]

My Dad was in Burma!

[@davidb2206]

Write that memoir! Please. We need all personal records and eyewitness accounts.

[@aquillafleetwood4209]

@@davidb2206 He told me the Japs were making a bombing run on them! My Dad said he just barely made it to a fox-hole and jumped into it but his best friend was a little farther away and was trying to get there too but was killed by the bomb! My Dad never would tell me much more!

[@johndrzymkowski7899]

Even with earphones almost inaudible!!!

[@edwinsalau150]

Shot down over Japan, episode two where is it?

[@d.williams6325]

A Cool "Non-Whisper of Slavery".

[@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO]

I don't remember hearing anything about Native Americans either (though maybe I missed it).

[@nonomnismoriar9051]

@@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO This was a pro-Allies WW2 propaganda video. They didn't outrie lie about anything, but had several ommissions, naturally.

[@grahamwride1240]

Nothing like the 1619 Project in vogue back then.

[@ec2197]

Everything fine but native americans are not mentioned they are totally ignored

[@davidb2206]

Nobody is native on the American continent. It's Anthropology 101. The Indians were not first, and came LATER across the Bering Land Bridge from Siberia. None of the oldest skeletons in the Americas are Indians. None of them. But Indians did serve considerably during the war, for the same pay. Navajo Codetalkers. (Get the movie.) Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian, is one of those in the famous flag-raising photo. See the movie Flags of Our Fathers.

[@ronniecoleman2342]

After watching this video I started humming God Bless America and a red, white, and blue rainbow appeared over my head.

[@rentslave]

What happened to THAT USA?

[@SuperJulmust]

this is propaganda

[@MrUhwoody]

Ain't it though. But then, everything pretty much is.

[@linusfotograf]

Duh, it was meant to boost morale

[@Napolean46]

Propaganda was made in Germany not US

[@SuperJulmust]

@@Napolean46 nigga this was ten years ago

[@peterjohnson617]

I find it strange how at 7;12 it says we have no parasites .The country seems to be half full of people who think they are entitled to a hand out. The people of that time fought & paid for our freedom.

[@roymarius1634]

Peter Johnson lol, you never hear of the New Deal? The 20th century was THE American century, and the American Century was the century of big government and Liberal supremacy.

[@TheGor54]

I get a huge kick out of the fact that thier are people referring to Donald J Trump in the comments here in a negative way. Talk about tds. That man lives rent free in the heads of vacant minds.

[@richardsmith9609]

THIS AMERICA IS DEAD!

[@hws-rl1cp]

America isnt 90% white anymore unfortunately

[@naguerea]

God bless them all!

[@bigred997]

should be shown in all public schools in its entirety as an obligation every year.

[@jeffreysoule3588]

Give me a break with all the flag-waving bullshit

[@davidb2206]

@@jeffreysoule3588 Sure, as long as you move to North Korea. You'd be much happier there.

[@MrGencarrot]

whats the song they used at 32:49?

[@2226253]

Taking land from the indigenous people and forcing them onto reservations wasn’t covered in We the People.

[@hawkpatriot2142]

Amazes me how people no longer recognize gluttony as a sin. My life was influenced by men that believed in God, family and country. Work for want you wanted and expected out of life.

[@johnrogan9420]

That ike d day battle plan was pure insanity.

[@Page-Hendryx]

THE NEW DEALERS' WAR

[@garyrunnalls7714]

Lol equality to all, unless you were black or Asian or perhaps a native American.

[@davidb2206]

They all served in uniform. Same pay.

[@mrFalconlem]

Not 1942, 1944 their is footage from D-Day in there.

[@christianguenther1276]

Hate to tell you, the telephone wasn't invented in America, the seed was planted in Brantford, Ontario. CANADA by Alexander Graham Bell.

[@colioscosmin1254]

The phone was invented by the scotish Alexander Graham Bell in UK , americans invented only the hole in the pretzel

[@bobs3354]

@@colioscosmin1254No, In Boston.

[@JamesMcComas-dr2xi]

You're all ridiculous lol

[@bernardinocabero9921]

God blessed America ❤

[@stevech4977]

I loved this propaganda it made me proud at one time in my teens. Now 70 need I say more.

[@coinsmith]

I still fly the 48-star flag. I leave it up to others to guess which 2 states I don't care to recognize.

[@-oiiio-3993]

I was born under the 49 star flag. What have you against Alaska and Hawaii?

[@coinsmith]

Those aren't the two that I don't much care for.@@-oiiio-3993

[@ralphbernhard1757]

Nice comedy, so funny....

[@brianfreel1473]

Don’t know about a billon but at least we offered Japan one lump or two

[@65gtotrips]

@6:22 ought be remembered today in 2023, that ‘not only a few (the elites) ought rule the people’.

[@chrisking3849]

very nice as long as you do not care about facts

[@philippecasteleyn9327]

And Russia ?

[@fjgdjkiesshk]

I have so much 'freedom' that I have to keep all of my assets overseas even though I'm not a criminal 🤣🤣🤣🤣🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 the irony

[@emmgeevideo]

Pretty much all white too. Black people contributed in full measure to the war but rarely pictured in these old movies.

[@davidb2206]

Wrong. The black seaman at Pearl Harbor who took over the machine gun was featured in the very first newsreel of the war.

[@therealxunil2]

There was a time in my life when I actually believed this crap. Then I grew up.