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NEWSREEL: 5.16.1940
President Roosevelt has asked Congress for $1 billion to modernize the military and has plans to produce 50,000 airplanes a year. “We have had the lesson before us over and over again””nations that were not ready and were unable to get ready found themselves overrun by the enemy. So-called impregnable fortifications no longer exist. A…
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Few Fail to Turn Off Lights During Blackout
Source: “Few Fail to Turn Off Lights During Blackout.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 24 May 1940, p. 4. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120528385/
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Army Chiefs Call Air Raid Drill Success
Source: Albright, Harry. “Army Chiefs Call Air Raid Drill Success.” The Honolulu Advertiser, 24 May 1940, pp. 1”“4. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120529158/
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NURSING NEWSREEL: 06. 30.1940
Currently, there are 942 active Army nurses in the corps. Additionally, there are 15,770 nurses registered in the First Reserve of the American Red Cross Nursing Service who can be mobilized if required. Source: Feller, Carolyn M, and Constance J. Moore, editors. Highlights in the History of the Army Nurse Corp , Revised and Expanded…
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Sex Hygiene and Venereal Disease
Source: Sex Hygiene and Venereal Disease, War Department, 1940.
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NEWSREEL: 9.6.1940
President Franklin Roosevelt enacted the Selective Training and Service Act, establishing the country’s first peacetime draft and formally instituting the Selective Service System as an independent Federal agency. Age was originally set to 21-35; later it was expanded to 18-64. As the year progressed, it became apparent that the United States would likely become involved…
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Opportunity in the ANC
Source: “Opportunity in the ANC.” The American Journal of Nursing, vol. 40, no. 12, Dec. 1940, pp. 1366”“1367.
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NEWSREEL: December 31, 1940
18,633 men have now entered the military through the Selective Service System. Source: “Induction Statistics.” Selective Service System, www.sss.gov/history-and-records/induction-statistics/. Accessed 27 Oct. 2023.