Transcript 1940’s - Shermie's Place

1940’s
A Look Into the Past
Speakers on
Glenn Millers “In the Mood”
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Crossroads Store, Juke Joint and Gas Station, Melrose, Louisiana, 1940
Adolf Hitler
visits Paris with
architect Albert
Speer (left)
June 23, 1940.
Hitler’s army
had captured
Paris, and he
came to admire
his new city.
Workers Parking Lot at San Diego Airplane Factory, 1940
This picture was taken on
September 16, 1941 at
Vinnitza, Ukraine and was
found in the personal file of a
German Einsatzgruppen
soldier. On the back of the
picture he had noted, “This is
the last Jew of Vinnitza”.
28,000 Jews from the city and
surrounding area were shot on
that day by the
Einsatzkommando (a subgroup of the five
Einsatzgruppen mobile killing
squads responsible for
systematically killing Jews and
Soviet political activists).
Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Elm Street, Theater Row in Dallas, January 1942
WW2 Doolittle Launch on Japan, April 18, 1942
Curtis P-40 Flying Tiger Squadron. The Flying Tigers Were Credited With Destroying
Nearly 300 Enemy Aircraft While Losing Only 14 Pilots on Combat Missions
Consolidated’s B-24 Liberator – The B-24 was built in two Consolidated plants. Production was also licensed to
Douglas, North American and Ford. At its peak, Ford’s Willow Run plant was producing 428 planes a month. A
total of over 18,000 planes were produced by the five plants. Today, only three B-24s remain in flying condition
and there are only about 10 in museums. The planes were flown by the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia,
South Africa and India. A good number of the museum planes were salvaged from India’s bone yard.
WASPs (Women’s Air Service Pilots) walking past the B-17 flying fortress known as Pistol
Packing Mama. In WW2 they shuttled airplanes from factories, served as test pilots and
delivered supplies by air. They trained out of Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas, now the
home of the WASP museum.
Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942
March 6, 1943. Germans Explore a British Lancaster Bomber, Downed During an
Air Raid on Berlin
Alcan Highway
1942
Bell Aircraft Corporation P-63 Kingcobras undergoing final Inspection at the Niagara Falls, New York factory. The
planes were built for Russia and provided under the Lend-Lease program. Air Transport Command ferry pilots,
including U.S. women pilots of the WASP program flew the planes to Great Falls, Montana and then onward via
the Alaska-Siberia Route through Canada to Nome, Alaska where Soviet ferry pilots, many of them women, would
take delivery of the aircraft and fly them over the Bering Strait to Russia. A total of 2,397 aircraft were delivered.
The United States restricted the theaters that the planes could be used in, however, once the Russians had
possession of the planes, they used them where they pleased, perhaps they couldn’t understand English. On the
other hand it may have been that in the midst of a war you just do what you need to do. A concept not foreign to
American commanders like Patton and MacArthur
B-24 Bomber Assembly c. 1943
1943 - Sons of the Pioneers
Top - Tim Spencer, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr and Ken Carson
Bottom - Bob Nolan, Roy Rogers and Pat Brady
Auschwitz
Glenn Miller and the Army Air
Force Band at the Yale Bowl
May 2, 1945, Soviet Soldiers Raising a Soviet Flag on the Roof of the Reichstag in Berlin
Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that Delivered the First Atomic Bomb
Cologne
Times Square
Celebration of the
end of the war.
The soldier and
the nurse are
unknown but
people have
come forward to
claim the fame.
Apparently the
nurse slapped the
soldier
immediately after.
Making Ice Cream for a Church Social, Yanceyville, North Carolina
Berliners
Watching a
C-54
Carrying
Supplies
Land at
Tempelhof
Airport
During the
Berlin
Blockade
1948