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audiemurphy.com. Audie Leon Murphy (20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) [1] was an American soldier, actor, and songwriter. He was widely celebrated as the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II, [4] and has been described as the most highly decorated soldier in U.S. history. [5][6] He received every military combat award for valor ...
Young, William ; Young, Nancy K. World War II and the postwar years in America : a historical and cultural encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2010. ISBN 0-313-35653-X. OCLC 720585980. Winkler, Sheldon. "The Music of World War II: War Songs and Their Stories," Merriam Press, Hoosick Falls, New York, 3rd edition, ISBN 978-0-359-64779-8.
World War II was the first conflict to take place in the age of electronically distributed music. Many people in the war had a pressing need to be able to listen to the radio and 78-rpm shellac records en masse. By 1940, 96.2% of Northeastern American urban households had radio. The lowest American demographic to embrace mass-distributed music ...
1943-1945 traveling show. This Is The Army is an American musical revue in two acts, designed to boost morale in the U.S. during World War II, with a book by James McColl and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. It was produced by the U.S. Army on Broadway in 1942, with a cast of U.S. soldiers, for the benefit of the Army Emergency Relief Fund.
The Ballad of Rodger Young is an American war song by Frank Loesser, written and first performed during World War II in March 1945. The ballad is an elegy for Army Private Rodger Wilton Young, who died after rushing a Japanese machine-gun nest on 31 July 1943, [1] and is largely based on the citation for Young's posthumous Medal of Honor. The ...
Over There" is a 1917 song written by George M. Cohan that was popular with the United States military and public during both world wars. It is a patriotic song designed to galvanize American young men to enlist and fight the "Hun". The song is best remembered for a line in its chorus: "The Yanks are coming." [1]
The "Song of the Women's Army Corps" is a United States Army marching song written by Jane Douglass White, [a] with lyrics by White and fellow soldier Camilla Mays Frank. Originally written during World War II as "The WAAC is in Back of You" by White before her induction into the service, the song's lyrics were adapted later by White and Frank ...
The Ballad of Rodger Young. Be Honest with Me. Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar. Beer Barrel Polka. Bell Bottom Trousers. Bless 'Em All. Blood on the Risers. Blue Smoke (song) Bomber Command (song)