2/8 A Short History

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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