1/8 War Comes to America

Frank Capra and Dimitri Tiomkin had a part in this series of films from the Army's Office of the Chief Signal Officer. These are short outtakes from Part Seven of the orientation series "Why We Fight" called "War Comes to America" and tells the tale of a reluctant America drawn into battlegrounds of World War II.

Transcript (PDF): http://archives.gov/social-media/transcripts/transcript-war-comes-to-america-...

Watch all the shorts, or "War Comes to America" in its entirety right here on our National Archives YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/usnationalarchives

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@pepsi71ocean, @debzeppeliniv

"Under God" wasn't added to the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954, years after this series was published. It was intended to further distinguish the US from the aethist Soviet Union.

You can read more about it in the Gerald Ford or Ike Eisenhower's presidential papers at the Presidential Libraries.

[martynrobin121]

@LottoWinner999 Are you insane>? Or just stupid!  How am i insulting American troops? Or been Anti-American?? Can you not answer?

[LottoWinner999]

@martynrobin121 This is the last time I will ask you to please leave me and others alone and if you insist on making Anti-American comments you might find a more appropiate video for your Anti-American attitude. If you refuse to quit stalking me I will file a complaint! Go haunt someone else.

[martynrobin121]

@LottoWinner999 Typical America, Everybody who isnt American you call Anti-American. I ask you yet again, "How am i insulting Americans troops"??? Without the Allies on D-Day invasion 1944, The Red Army would have liberated Europe and Communism would rule the world,etc. How am i insulting your troops??

[LottoWinner999]

@martynrobin121 I am going to ask you very nicely not to reply to me or my comments because every you say has Anti-American agenda to it in addition to the fact that you disrupt mine and other peoples comments that denigrates Americans who fought and died during WW2 to liberate Europe from the Nazi's. So please leave me and others alone and if you insist on American comments you might find a more appropiate video for Anti-American attitude.

[martynrobin121]

@LottoWinner999 How am i insulting American troops who helped liberated europe? Without the U.S and British&Commonwealth forces most of Europe would be under Communist Soviet rule.

[mamaschristmasbunny]

@fringeelements, Ya! No one in their right mind knowing what it is all about, would sign themselves up for war, I agree.

I would dodge any draft.