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Government Asks That Citizens Stay Home During Vacation
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keywords: wwii, united states home front, transportation war effort
Synopsis: The Office of Defense Transportation pleads with U.S. citizenry to restrict vacation travel so as to free up fuel and transportation for returning troops from Europe...(read more)
- Date: 1945
- Duration: 00:01:24
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Government Asks That Citizens Stay Home During Vacation
Col. J. Monroe Johnson, Director of the Office of Defense Transportation admonishes Americans to spend their vacations at home this year, 1945, so that returning soldiers from Europe may be moved from the Atlantic seaboard to the west coast for shipment to the Pacific war zone. Shows thousand of soldiers arriving on the east coast of America after the surrender of Germany.
- Related Titles:
- Newsreels: 1945 - June 14
