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News & Media
War information came home in one of three ways: the newspaper, the radio and the newsreels, which were shown before feature-length films at theatres across the country. National radio updates came three times daily and most of America tuned in for reports from places they had never heard of before the war.
War information came home in one of three ways: the newspaper, the radio and the newsreels, which were shown before feature-length films at theatres across the country. National radio updates came three times daily and most of America tuned in for reports from places they had never heard of before the war.
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Al McIntosh was born in 1905 in Park River, North Dakota. His father was a Presbyterian minister and the family moved around a great deal during his childhood. He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1928 and went to work for the Lincoln (Nebraska) Journal, taking photographs as well . . .
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Columnist Al McIntosh of Luverne's Rock County Star Herald at his typewriter.
Source: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Minnesota
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Columnist Al McIntosh of the Star-Herald wearing his glasses examines an article in the newspaper. He sits cross-legged wearing a sweater vest.
Source: Jean McIntosh Vickstrom
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Selections from "Selected Chaff: The wartime columns of Al McIntosh."
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Al McIntosh column on a local boy who is missing in action. June 10, 1943.
Source: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Minnesota
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Al McIntosh writes about life in Luverne on July 4, 1944.
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Columnist Al McIntosh of Luverne's Rock County Star Herald.
Source: Jean McIntosh Vickstrom
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The Alhambra Theatre in Sacramento.
Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (2001/ x-03/ 007)
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Rock County Star Herald, September 10, 1942. Headline reads: "Palace-Pix In Theatre Bond Drive"? "Free Ticket to Movie On Sept. 24 Given With Bond Purchases"?
Source: Rock County Star Herald, Luverne, Minnesota
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As a delivery boy for The Sacramento Bee, Burt Wilson followed the war through the maps printed on the front page. He talks about the Battle of the Bulge
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Lt. Col. F. Evans Carlson (front row, third from left) with his famed Carlson's Raiders, the 2nd Raider Battalion. February, 1943, Guadalcanal.
Source: National Archives
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At the Casablanca Conference, the Allied Powers decided on pursuing unconditional surrender from the Axis Powers. At Britain's insistence, they also agreed to delay a cross-channel invasion into Europe in favor of a thrust into the "soft underbelly" through Italy. Seated from left to right are French General Henri Giraud, . . .
Source: National Archives
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The news of D-Day reaches across America
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A call for civility on the home front.
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Ernest Taylor Pyle, best known as "Ernie," covered the Second World War for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain. Pyle was born to farmers in Dana, Indiana on August 3, 1900. He joined the US Navy in 1918 hoping to see action in World War One, but the . . .
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Ernie Pyle at his typewriter, Anzio, Italy, March 18, 1944.
Source: National Archives (111-SC-191705)
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A favorite of the GIs, journalist Ernie Pyle offers a cigarette to an infantryman. He later would be killed by a sniper's bullet.
Source: National Archives (127-N-116840)
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks to the country following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Except of Roosevelt's last address to Congress.
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President Roosevelt leads the nation in prayer for the cross-channel invasion. (excerpt)
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