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Welcome to World War Two Chronicles a
weekly tribute to America's fighting men and women

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in commemoration of the Second World War. These programs are narrated by ed Hrlihy

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and are based on the news broadcasts
of the war period from the recorded sound

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collection of the National Archives in Washington, d C. Mid July nineteen forty

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five. No one on the home
front is worried about keeping his house warm

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in the coming winter. No one
that is, except C. J.

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Potter, Deputy Administrator of Solid Fuels. Fuel is still our silent partner in

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the battle against Japan. It is
still fighting on land and sea and in

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the air, and will continue to
fight until complete victory is ours in the

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Pacific. You can do your part
in making the most of limited fuel supplies

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by storing whatever call or fuel you
can just as soon as you can stretch

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your fuel supply by cleaning and repairing
your heating equipment. Installing heating controls save

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up to thirty percent of your fuel
By winter rising, your home or building

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canselate weather, strip, cawk cracks, order or make yourself storm doors and

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windows. Remember last winter was no
picnic. Your government urges prepare for winter

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now a bunch not at all concerned
with Jack Frost. The GIS on a

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multi day furlough from Germany, living
the life of Riley on the French REVERA.

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Army staff Sergeant Robert Blake describes the
scene from his hotel room in Nice.

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Yeah, they are given rooms overlooking
the blue waters of the Mediterranean and

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service which up to now has been
only a GIS dream. They remember dreaming

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about these very things when they were
up at those most of bad bases in

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Germany, trying to imagine what would
be like. Wake up in a comfortable

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bed with sheep, get up and
shave with hot water, find the morning

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newspaper at their door, and chow
shine ready to go. As the office

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says, well here and these that
dream is realized. There's no reveli,

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no formation, no first thought of
balking at them, nothing to do except

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eat, sleep, lie on the
beach, go boating, golfing, fishing,

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or anything that for long years they
couldn't do In New York with a

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newspaper delivery strike continuing. Mayor Fiorello
la Guidia uses his weekly radio broadcast to

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keep the kids up to date on
their favorite comic strips. The next picture,

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we see Dick Tracy. You know, the fine type of Dick Tracy.

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He's been a detective so long and
he still has that slender form.

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Lou Valentine, Why do our detectives
get fat? I wonder, Well,

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anyhow, here's Tracy. He's asking
the only vehicle that left the house at

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that time was one of your long, big trucks. I'd like to question

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the driver. I'm in Hurley,
show me next time. The World War

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Two Chronicles. World War Two Chronicles
was produced by the American Veterans Center and

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Radio America in cooperation with the National
Archives. To listen to more episodes,

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help to keep the legacy of our
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