We Volunteered,

We Sacrificed,

We went to War

We Won!

Uncle Sam put out the call for help, and America answered by hurling a tidal wave of Freedom Fighters into the fray. Some of our nation's volunteers carried star power to the front of the line. Names like Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Benny Goodman, Ted Williams, and a host of others, ready and willing to serve, filled the Volunteer lists. On the homefront, we were one nation carrying a banner of support for those in both the Pacific, and European theaters. Common citizens did their part by sacrificing even at the grocery store. The non-combative efforts that played such a silent, but crucial part of our combined effort, must be added to the history books so that the generations to follow will realize one of our Country's finest achievements.

Corporate America went from producing automobiles, to producing ships, tanks, planes, and all other mechanized war goods. The schedule was around the clock, 24/7. Here we see the assembly line, (left),   for the Army Air Corps' old war horse, the P-47 Thunderbolt, (right). The P-47 used, for the most part in the European theater, controlled the skies over France.

The Army Air Corp., as it was called prior to becoming the U. S. Air Force, brought forth onto the European continent the Mighty B-17 Bomber, affectionately nicknamed the "Flying Fortress." The brave men that rode these War Birds incurred some of the greatest casualties of World War II.

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