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About How The Crowds Cheered America's First Victories | America's War Years: 1942

By the time the U.S. entered the war, the Nazi blitzkrieg had flattened France, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and Luxembourg, and the Japanese were overwhelming in the Pacific Ocean. At home in 1942, our mighty war machine roared to life.

How The Crowds Cheered America's First Victories | America's War Years: 1942 is presented by Real History. Its listed runtime is 46 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.

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How The Crowds Cheered America's First Victories | America's War Years: 1942
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46 minutes
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