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CONTENTS.txt
Homefront xx-xx-xx (1) 1938-39 Nazis and Martians.mp3
Homefront xx-xx-xx (2) 1940 London Calling.mp3
Homefront xx-xx-xx (3) 1941 Arsenal of Democracy.mp3
Homefront xx-xx-xx (4) 1942 the U S at War.mp3
Homefront xx-xx-xx (5) 1942 Give Til It Hurts.mp3
Homefront xx-xx-xx (6) 1943 G I Joe.mp3
Homefront xx-xx-xx (7) 1944 Liberation.mp3
Homefront xx-xx-xx (8) 1945 Victory!.mp3

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The contents.txt consists of the following description-

Program 001: Nazis & Martians (1938-1939) August 6,
1945 - Hiroshima and the end of an era...The Home 
Front looks back...The Depression...FDR's New Deal..
"Who's Afraid of the Big Wolf"...Hollywood's 
mixed signals on peace and war..."Off to work we
go"...Hitlers dreams his dreams in Vienna...America's
"September Song"...Appeasement by London and
Paris...Radio's immediacy and The War of the Worlds...
Approaching storm in Europe...American's
yearn for the Land of Oz...Poland invaded...America
struggles with neutrality...London's children sent
away...Gone With the Wind...The Big Band color
line...Marian Anderson's triumph...FDR speaks of 
America's rendezvous with destiny."


Program 002: London Calling (1940) Changing times
and the end of a difficult decade...New Year's Eve
opens a new era...Boogie Woogie and the Blues...
Frank Sinatra and Glenn Miller's "Make-Believe
Ballroom"...Main Street U.S.A...War-time prosperity
without the war...Isolationism...Music goes Latin
Dunkirk, Churchill, and the fall of France...Wendell
Willkie...America First movement..."God Bless 
America"...Knute Rockne's "battle cry" and the
American draft...England's finest hour...Edward R.
Morrow in England...Princess Elizabeth wishes the
English children well...the Blitz.

Program 003: Arsenal of Democracy (1941)
Roosevelt's 3rd term...The Four Freedoms...
Classical music with a popular beat..."V for
Victory"...Lend Lease...Churchill's Give us the
tools and we will finish the job"...Good times...
Liberty Ships...Germany invades Russia...Joe
Louis, Ted Williams, and the Dogers...Japan
looks south...Hollywood backs mobilization...
Linbergh...Peacetime draft...German U-Boat
sinks and Reuben James...Japanese task force
in the Pacific...Roosevelt appeals to the Emperor
of Japan for peace...Yamamoto's planes head
for Pearl Harbor.

Program 004: The U.S. at War (1942) The drama
of Pearl Harbor...The forces at Pearl Harbor are
taken by surprise..."Remember Pearl Harbor"...
U.S. declares war...Roosevelt speaks of the "date
that will live in infamy"...The Rose Bowl in North
Carolina...Six Million Americans in uniform...Famous
enlistments...Japanese Avericans are put in Camps...
"Goodbye Mamma"...Churchill's visit...Jimmy 
Doolittle's raid on Japan..."The son of a Gun Who
Picked on Uncle Sam"..."Praise the Lord and Pass
the Ammunition"...America's industrial miracle
"Arms for the Love of America".

Program 005: Give 'Till It Hurts (1942) Radio
Charlie...Grim news from the Pacific...The "long 
night of barbarism" engulfs Aferica, Europe and
Russia..."Kiss the Boys Goodbye"...Blue Stars and
Gold Stars...The Houston is Sunk...Comics, radio
and movies get in the war..."This is the Army"...
"Any bonds today"...Ration books, victory gardens
and scrap drives..."Yankee Doodle Dandy"...The 
Battle of Midway...The Yorktown...Africa invaded...
Casablanca...Christmas 1942...Bing Crosby's
"White Christmas".

Program 006: GI Joe (1943)"When Johnny Comes
Marching Home"...Rosie the Riveter..."That Soldier
of Mine"...Twelve million men in uniform..."They're
Either Too Young or Too Old"...WACS & WAVES...
"1st class Pvt.Mary Brown"...Stagedoor Canteens...
Guadalcanal Diary...GI Joe...Stalingrad...Hitchcock's
"Lifeboat"...Yamamoto shot down...J.F. Kennedy's
P.T. 109..."American Eagle"..."Comin' in on a Wing
and a Prayer"...the Navy at Salerno..."Destination
Tokyo"..."The Story of GI Joe"...Ernie Pyle and Bill
Mauldin...General Patton...Heroism of the 442nd
Infantry - Japanese Americans...

Program 007: Liberation (1944) The beaches at
Normandy..."When the Lights Go On Again"
Hollywood goes on the road...Tokyo Rose...The
Allies take Rome...Talk of the end of the war...Victory
Gardens go to seed and Scrap Drives falter..."D" Day
rallies The Home Front...Plot against Hilter...Dewey
challenges Roosevelt...Harry S. Truman joins the
Democratic ticket...Roosevelt wins a 4th term...
Marines take Guam...MacArther returns to the
Phillippines...Battle of Leyte Gulf...Paris is liberated
in August...Battle of the Bulge...1944 ends with
Roosevelt's triumphant return to Washington.

Program 008 Doodle Bugs and V-2's (1945)
strike Britain..The Bomb nears completion in the
U.S...The push to Berlin is on...Yalta, a controversial
agreement...Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs,
Gerogia...The final hours of the Third Reich...
Mussolini executed...Hilter dies at his bunker...Berlin
falls...May 8th - V-E Day...Iwo Jima and Okinawa...
Japan bargains for peace, but too slowly...The
Atomic Bomb...VJ Day...The boys come home...
Enormous casualities...End of the "long night of
barbarism"...New Era begins.
Omfamtry

 

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