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NEWSREEL: 12.07, 1941 -19:00
Source: “A Pearl Harbor Fact Sheet – Census.Gov.” Census.Gov, National WWII Museum , 7 Dec. 2001, www.census.gov/history/pdf/pearl-harbor-fact-sheet-1.pdf.
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DIARY: Monday, December 8, 1941
Monday, December 8, 1941Dear Diary,So we find our rooms and I slept like a log with all my clothes on until about 3 a.m. when the anti-air craft guns began their pounding at Pearl Harbor, it looks like a Fourth of July celebration, only not so thrilling. The planes are now soaring over, action starts,…
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NEWSREEL: 12.0 8.1941
The U.S. and Great Britain declare war on Japan. Source: “The U.S. and Great Britain Declare War on Japan.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 8 Dec. 1941, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-bulletin/134906367/
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NEWSREEL: Day of Infamy Speech
This item is President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s annotated draft of a proposed message to Congress requesting a Declaration of War against Japan. The speech was dictated by Roosevelt on December 7, 1941 in the hours following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The handwritten notations are Roosevelt’s modifications and corrections to the typewritten first draft.…
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Medicine: Baby Boom
The U.S. birth rate has hit a ten-year high in 1941, with an estimated total of 2,500,000 new babies. Every minute during the year, more than four babies were born. Such was the summing up of the U.S. Census Bureau last week. Reasons for this increase, which represents a gain of 140,000 babies over the…
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NEWSREEL: 12.09.1941 We are now in this war
Source: “Highlights of Address by Nation”™s Chief Executive.” The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Dec. 1941, p. 6.https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-tribune/134908250/ President Roosevelt has told the American public, “We are now in this war. We are all in it all the way. Every single man, woman and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking of our American…
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DIARY: Wednesday, December 10, 1941
Wednesday, December 10, 1941Dear Diary, I received a call from the War Department asking for my services. Gee was I tickled, so I said you bet, anytime. So I am now on needles and pins. When and where will I go and won”™t I ever hear about Jr? One tells me the Maryland went down,…
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NEWSREEL Thursday, December 11, 1941
Thursday, December 11, 1941 : Mussolini and Hitler declare war on the U.S. America declares war on Italy and Germany.
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NEWSREEL: 12.11.1941
Source: “US Declares War on Germany.” Shamokin News-Dispatch, 31 Dec. 1941, p. 8. https://www.newspapers.com/article/shamokin-news-dispatch/134909747/