She Remembers Pearl Harbor

Category: Entertainment

  • TIME CAPSULE: Radio Ownership

    By 1930, 40% of households across the nation possessed a radio. Despite the harsh impact of the Great Depression in the 1930s, radio maintained its central role in American life. The ownership of radios in American homes would surge to 83% by 1940. United States, Congress, US Department of Commerce. Fifteenth Census of the United…

  • Cinema: Hollywood to the Wars

    The sudden fact of war caught Hollywood with its make-up off. Before the first blackout of Los Angeles, the citadel of cinemadom camouflaged its feelings with a vigorous regurgitation of gags. The blackout somehow changed things; everybody wanted to do something to help. Some results: > Studios were besieged with requests from top executives, $50-a-week…

  • Pearl Harbor Attack Inspires New Song

    Source: “Pearl Harbor Attack Inspires New Song.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 16 Jan. 1942. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/125652305/

  • Famed Beach Club Now Service Club

    Source: “Famed Beach Club Now Service Club.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 25 Jan. 1942, p. 17. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-honolulu-advertiser/125654773/

  • No Admission Fee Will Be Charged for USO Shows

    Source: “No Admission Fee Will Be Charged for USO Shows.” Burlington Daily News, 10 Mar. 1942, p. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/article/burlington-daily-news/134520727/

  • USO Shows Make Military Happy

    Source: “USO Shows Make Military Happy.” The Spokesman-Review, 12 Apr. 1942, p. 39. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-spokesman-review/134520528/

  • GI Joe

    The term G.I. Joe is coined in a Dave Berger comic strip that appears in the new Army newspaper Yank. World War II: The Debut of G.I. Joe December 30, 2021 Posted by: Neely Tucker This is a guest post by Meg McAleer, a historian in the Manuscript Division. It ran in the Nov.-Dec. issue of…

  • Clark Gable Enlists

    Source: “Clark Gable Enlists.” The Roanoke Times, 13 Aug. 1942, p. 6. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-roanoke-times/137890335/

  • ‘Lonley Women’ Changes Broadcast Time on KWKH

    NBC Radio premieree the daytime serial “Lonely Women” on June 15, 1942which focuses on the lives of women separated from their men who are serving in the war. Initially an all-woman affair, the show wassoon expanded to include men. Source:”‚“”˜Lonley Women”™ Changes Broadcast Time on KWKH.” The Times, 23 Aug. 1942, p. 16. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times/137136174/