Category: 1942

  • NEWSREEL: 01.06. 1942

    President Roosevelt has called for production of 60,000 planes, 45,000 tanks and 20,000 antiaircraft guns. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces to Congress that he is authorizing the largest armaments production in the history of the United States. Committed to war in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. had to reassess its military preparedness, especially in light of…

  • Thumbs Up

    Source: Belknap, Jazz. “Thumbs Up.” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 6 Jan. 1942, p. 6. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120458058/

  • Hawaiian Garden

    Source: “Hawaiian Garden.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 7 Jan. 1942, p. 8. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/127794131/

  • A Sanford B. Dole Anecdote

    Source: “A Sanford B. Dole Anecdote.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 7 Jan. 1942, p. 8. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/127794939/

  • Official Record

  • Boy Buys Defense Bond

    Source: “Boy Buys Defense Bond.” Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 9 Jan. 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/hawaii-tribune-herald/125190423/

  • Honolulu Girls and Gas Masks

    Source: “Honolulu Girls and Gas Masks.” Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 10 Jan. 1942, p. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/article/hawaii-tribune-herald/127251237/

  • The Negro Mess Attendant On The “Arizona”

    Source: “The Negro Mess Attendant On The ”˜Arizona”™ – an Editorial From ”˜The Militant.”™” The Black Dispatch, 10 Jan. 1942, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-black-dispatch/137086134/

  • Roosevelt is Selected As Time’s ‘Man of the Year’

    Source: “Roosevelt Is Selected As Time”™s ”˜Man of the Year.”™” The Charlotte Observer, 11 Jan. 1942, p. 43. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charlotte-observer/134975772/