Everybody Joins the War Effort 1942

Hollywood joins the war effort in this installment of "Tracing World War II," from the holdings of the National Archives. Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Joe Louis and others show off their new military uniforms while the Royal Air Force takes on Germany from the air.

SUMMARY
Part 1 shows celebrities in military service (Jackie Coogan, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Clark Gable, Joe Louis, Assoc. Justice Frank Murphy, Tyrone Power, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., James Roosevelt, and James Stewart) and film entertainers on war bond tours (including James Cagney, Ronald Colman, Bing Crosby, Irene Dunne, Greer Garson, and Heddy Lamar). It shows scenes of Hollywood and Washington, D.C. In part 2, antiaircraft guns are manufactured. In part 3, the Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs France and Germany.