War Comes to America (full film)

Frank Capra and Dimitri Tiomkin had a part in this series of films from the Army's Office of the Chief Signal Officer. This is 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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[Brutalbanani]

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[mm19111]

The "under God" was not put into the pledge until the Eisenhouer administration.

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[BigBillie01]

All that sacrifice to ignore the surrender of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights to the Criminal Congress - a Criminal President and a gutless moronic acceptance to Evil.

View this film and if you can live with yourself then Shame on you for then the sacrifice was in-vain.

[MuchoFunkie]

@AfroGangsta10 And again I have to debunk the way you comprehend or understand my arguments, I never said anything about the intention of the nuclear bomb and what the US wanted to use it for was coinciding. Besides, the emperor was allready ready to surrender, and had already anounced it to his most loyal people, and he had allready written the speech/anouncement to the broader population.

[MuchoFunkie]

@AfroGangsta10 Lol, you fall in the trap again... Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both heavily populated areas aswell, or do you beg to differ? I know that the Nuclear Bomb was a solution for a quick ending and a way of preventing further losses, theres nothing new in that, but that was the exact same intention as the V2 - Yet at that time Germany was allready losing the war, being heavily outnumbered, lacking resources, and fighting on multiple fronts to ever produce enough V2's.

[AfroGangsta10]

@MuchoFunkie

Again, I don't care what Germany was GOING to do with V2's. It matters what they DID do. WHICH WAS HITTING HEAVILY POPULATED AREAS.

The atom bomb WAS NOT USED for moral. JAPAN DIDN'T HAVE MORAL. All the civilians were being trained to fight against the invasion. THE ENTIRE POPULATION.

What the US used it for and what the Atom Bomb was MADE FOR. ARE 2 DIFFERENT THINGS.

Yes they surrendered. Of course the main goal was to end the war with Japan. But doing that was the problem

[MuchoFunkie]

@AfroGangsta10 No, the Atom Bomb was aswell used as a moral devastator... Ffs, after the nuclear bomb they surrendered, that is actually aswell the downfall of your own argument, as the "moral-destruction" also coincides for the damn Atom Bomb. Germany had the intention of supplementing nuclear warheads to the V2 rocket bomb, so that just debases your argument even more. It was made for the same reason, Hitler knew that an invasion of America was more or less impossible, so the V2 project began.

[AfroGangsta10]

@MuchoFunkie Here your starting to stray off again with your responses.I'll make it simple

V2's- Were manufactured for long-range warfare indeed but were USED as a severe moral de-creaser.

Atom Bomb(America)- It was a SOLUTION. The Atom Bomb was not used for moral drop, nor was it used as much to end the war quicker. It was used to AVOID THE INVASION OF JAPAN.

US gave Japan an ultimatum as well..Twice.

Tokyo was already bombed to hell. No factories were present there in 1945.

[MuchoFunkie]

@AfroGangsta10 So it was basically made for the exact same purpose - Also, the importance of Hiroshima was liminal in comparison to Tokyo or Yokohama. The Nuclear Bomb on Hiroshima renounced casualties entirely to the civil population...

[MuchoFunkie]

@AfroGangsta10 It might have been, but both Germany and America at this time tried to produce weapons to make the war come to a quick end... The V2 was intended for cross-globe warfare against America (Like Hiroshima and Nagasaki - But instead perhaps Washington and/or New York), to make the American's surrender - An invasion was allready impossible for German's at this time, since they first had to deal with the British, and then traverse the whole Atlantic - Hence the V2

[AfroGangsta10]

@MuchoFunkie Here we go, Hiroshima was one of the largest factory cities that were still intact. Nagasaki was also of importance but the bomb was not dropped correctly.

Really? Imagine if they decided to invade Japan. Not only would millions of american soldiers would have died. A LARGE amount of the Japanese population would have aswell. You do realize they were training the civilians to fight? Everybody would have been a target.

Any historian would agree it was the right choice.