1945 US TREASURY DEPARTMENT

but those who worked with Carole Lombard remember her best of brave and cheerful trooper a boundless spirit was infectious dominated every cast ultimately she became one of the leading actresses of our time a star of the first magnitude she had become the screens top-notch comedienne she never stopped working never let miss fortune drag her down she and Clark Gable were married in 1939 and started what seemed Hollywood's happiest married life Carole Lombards last role was played in her country service she went on tour to sell defense bonds at Indianapolis she spoke her last lines Carole Lombard said farewell it is the duty of each and all of histogram to contribute every ounce of energy and every dollar that we can possibly spare the purchase of Defense forms which will carry us to victory but it's all signed a pledge to buy a bomb in all of the way we continue to layers in the land is free and leaving you now I want you all to join me in raising your hand to making a sign of the truth surveen sign authorized by our famous tally across the sea Woodson shirt him heads and hands up America let's give a rousing cheer will be heard in Berlin and Tokyo one freezing winter nights an airliner flying over Nevada went off its course then crashed into this mountain the wreck took 22 to their deaths including Carole Lombard a recovery party establishes its base and sets off on the long climb the scene of the wreck is high above Las Vegas pack horses are taken in the hope that they may carry back the bodies of the victims the searchers reach their goal then the task of bringing back the dead there were no survivors 15 army pilots died here in one of Aviation's worst disasters Peggy Moran rides in style in the nation's capital the popular universal starlet is on vacation here but right now she's doing a little bit for Uncle Sam Peggy's helping the defense stamp sale at Treasury house I'd imagine that sales would spurt here abouts with Peggy in charge and yes sir it doesn't take long here come the cash customers including max Cohen manager of the universal exchange in Washington they both know a good investment when they see one the secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau welcomes the British and American War Medal man he initiated their nationwide tour to promote more bond sales I want to thank each of you from the bottom of my heart what you've done in helping to win the law and in behalf of the Treasury Department I also would like to thank you for the great assistance that you're giving us in this war Bon Appetit President Roosevelt receives winners of decorations for valor the president extends White House hospitality along with the first lady and the British ambassador to men who having done their glorious bin are now exerting us to do ours by buying war bonds you there's a Philadelphia ovation for the party of a live war heroes who are touring the united states in behalf of the sale of war bomb in the Scout cars british and american Metal Men men who have been decorated for exploits of heroism in war honor is paid to them for courage shown an air battle on high and in commando raids and now the parade passes Independence Hall a woman's defense unit marches bias Philadelphia stages of pageant of fervent wartime patriotism at Independence Hall the war heroes see that venerable historic memento Liberty Bell shown to them by Mayor Samuels right day in Philadelphia and is also the United Nations day the city of William Penn and a great demonstration of wartime morale and on flag day they say it with play in Washington DC your favorite stars are cast by Uncle Sam in a billion dollar production that's the goal in the sep tember war bond drive led by the motion picture industry Bing Crosby helped launch the coast to coast campaign there's Jimmy Cagney Abbott and Costello at the Treasury Building the mightiest bond selling epic gets off to a banner start the big-name stars draw crowds that remind observers of a presidential inauguration host to the silver screen contingent is Treasury Secretary Morgenthau and now customers action sell the new slogan of the super salesman from Hollywood studios stars over America all doing their bit how about you movie fans thousands of Americans and hundreds of cities have inspected this Japanese suicide submarine which ran aground off the arm of wahoo Hawaii the sub our first trophy of the war with Japan weighs over 20 tons carried two torpedoes in a powerful suicide bomb within its hull it's coming to this city soon and the purchase of a war stamp would entitle you to see the submarines in urma secretory not mr. mrs. john l conner 10 r campbell and captain Sam Jenkins who commanded the hero cruisers lanta a check for 61 million dollars is presented to the Secretary of the Navy by Chairman Connor of the new Atlantic cruiser committee in a campaign launched at the city of Atlanta money was raised to provide a new ship to take the place of the cruiser sank in a heroic fight while the American sleep was winning the great naval battle of guadalcanal mr. prime minister in opening the third wall alone I'm very happy to be able to sell you the first 100 dollar bond this is going to be a great example and inspiration to the 50 million Americans that we're going to ask to buy an extra 100 dollar bond during our September drive I take great pleasure in delivering this to you and thank you sir mr. secretary I'm very glad indeed to come here today and it is a great pleasure to me to receive from your hand this the first bond of your great new victory close I have often thought mr. secretary that you must be one of the bravest men in the world and that you ought to have the Congressional Medal and the Victoria Cross and all the other decorations of all the airlines for being able to lie down at night and sleep so calmly and quietly amid all these astronomical figures of modern finance so far you are born with the great burden with success now this is the fourth anniversary of the British entry into the war and we certainly have a right to be extremely thankful that we are all in such good posture after these long periods of tribulation and tearing this loan undoubtedly will have the effect if it is fully subscribed of appreciably affecting the duration of the struggle he would go to fail it would eat tail a prolongation everyone therefore you should give it their utmost support I'm so glad you could come won't you come in come right in sit down make yourself comfortable I wanted to take you back to a day in 1918 this seemed the best way of doing it the date was november the 11th remember remember that day the world was wild with joy with the day of peace the day of victory but do you remember the world a November the 10th 1918 the day before all the Armistice you'll realize that 26,000 then were killed in action on November the 10th 1918 you this boy was wounded on November the 10th 1918 one day one day before the war was over do you recognize him he was one of the thousands of men who were killed or wounded under number the 10th 1918 one day one day before the war was over now mind you if the war had ended just one day soon this same boy your boy your brother your father her husband might have been holding his wife in his arms might have been looking into the faces of his children we all want this war to end sooner but every day every hour every minute counts a bullet takes only a split second to reach its objective that objective might easily be someone you love we can shorten this war our fighting men are doing their part on the war front we can do ours on the home front just think of the saving and human lives if this war would end just one day sooner the third war loan is our now this theater and movie theaters throughout the country are making it possible for you to shorten this war let your slogan now be a bond for a life the bond you purchase as you leave this theater maybe the ticket home for someone you love remember if you want them back back them up then our money build a bridge across the Atlantic in the Pacific over which our boys can come home to your arms into mine sooner thank you sharan for John but I loaded up with war bonds in the last three sides and I can't afford it this time take that box of mine in the bank is stuffed with farms I always went over the quarter but this time I just can't afford it I'm sorry I can't afford it hold on Joe there's something I want to say to you you told me yeah I don't wanna give it a quick now we've got a lot of boys and girls fighting this war for us and are doing a great job maybe two great because you're beginning to feel good again you think peace is just around the corner so now you're going to go in and buy yourself a nice new suit of clothes and a good guy up to now yeah but you're quitting quitting Joe before the job is over War factories had me shut down they're still working the clock around it turned out the stuff we need to win this war and the Merchant Marine is still ducking torpedoes and bombs to get it there the army hasn't quit and Navy hasn't quit I need to have the Marines or the girls you're quitting right in the middle of the fight oh listen man you want let those fellows and girls down it's been a whole lot trouble attendant for you go what if they decided to let you down what if they quit what if they decided they couldn't afford any more one of the boys who've been taking it for you suddenly said that they'd gone over their quote they fought a battle last week last month last night that some other guys should take it for a change for instance you Joe the Nazis won't quit the Japs won't quit and you better not quit that's what you can't afford I never looked at it like that before well maybe some other folks haven't either what if we want to look those boys and girls in the eye when they come marching home or if we one of the car sales in the eye we won't quit now the fourth wall on drivers on and nobody can afford to buy that extra soon floor that extra dress or those on eration shoes well what's more important is that we can all afford to buy those bonds let's all back the attack the bright returns to its birthplace New York subtreasury building where Congress first adopted the amendments the document becomes the focal point of the fourth war loan drive this is one of the original copies of the bill and it is loan to Mark Van Doren Committee Chairman it is my great privilege as chairman of the national book and author war bond committee to accept the loan of this priceless document the bill of right there's a foundation for our activities during the fourth war loan this investment of the Bill of Rights will in due time be presented to the library of congress meanwhile it alone committee through the generosity of the donor mr. bubble bath the goal of the fourth war alone drive is 14 billion dollars the Bill of Rights after the drive is concluded will be presented to the library of congress this is the only basic American document not in the library's possession now the ancient parchment will be enshrined alongside the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States it was in 1791 that the Bill of Rights was drafted to safe side the right of the state and of the people the charter of America's freedom the Bill of Rights 25,000 tons of oceanic air power and the new carrier is christened the Hancock named after John Hancock of Revolutionary War fame this 96 million dollar aircraft carrier at quincy massachusetts was paid for with money invested in war bonds Times Square New York America launch is a great fifth war loan offensive for a record 16 billion dollars a giant cash register records the daily bond sales for New York State and the first phase buyers responding to the great invasion news establish an 18 million dollar beachhead on the city's four billion dollar objective in Washington mrs. Charles Clark mother of the fifth army general buys a fifth war loan bond and dedicates it to her fighting some General Mark Clark back in New York a stirring fifth war loan parade up Fifth Avenue today the eyes of the whole world are on our armed forces as they dig in on the French coast we must and will dig down for that extra bomb then in Central Park real evidence of where our money goes a big gun $20,000 anti-tank gun six thousand dollars teddy machine gun twelve hundred dollars and from the White House President Roosevelt with a message to the American people there is a direct connection between the bonds that you have bought and the stream of men and equipment now rushing over the English Channel for the liberation of Europe there is a direct connection between your war bonds and every part of this global war today the liberation forces that are now screaming across the channel and up the beaches down through the fields and the forests of France are using thousands and thousands of planes and ships and tanks and heavy guns they are carrying with the many thousands of items needed for their dangerous stupendous undertaking and today there is a shortage of nothing nothing and everyone who bought a war bond helped and helped mightily and so I urge all American to buy war bonds without stint swell the mighty chorus to bring us nearer to victory take sarcana USA which straddles the border of Texas and Arkansas fires the opening gun in the nation's fifth wall on campaign for 16 billion this Arsenal town of the Southwest is host to governor coke Stevens of Texas and pipe and many notables from all parts of the country the young universal star Gloria Jean is among Hollywood's representatives techs are cannot topped its quota New York inaugurated strive with a parade by the hundredth infantry with American storming the beaches of France every day is the day on the home front by that bond back their attack the Treasury Department LCT the Blue Star climaxes upon selling tour as she arrives in New York to take part in liberation ceremonies at the Statue of Liberty America at war has a special significance to these people of various nationalities whose native lands are being liberated to the sale of America's war bonds let's all follow this Patriots example by bonds and put them away to guard our most precious heritage liberty portland oregon and the launching of Swan Island shipyard 75th tanker the SS Forbes Road on hand to wield the christening bottle is mrs. Ted or gamble wife of the national director of the fifth war long drive hence moment sixteen thousand eight hundred ton tanker takes its name from the main highway used by the Forbes expedition across western Pennsylvania in 1758 for 30 years Forbes Road was used as the main highway between the East and the Ohio Valley now the name goes out on the high seas one more ship to hasten victory one more example of what happens to the money from your war bonds good luck to the Forbes Road and keep the ships coming by backing the fighting fifth the Avenue of the Allies now no longer just Fifth Avenue secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Mayor LaGuardia make it official in a symbolic tape cutting along the famous boulevards of flags of the United Nations now proudly fly but those flags remind you that this is a fight for a free world the least you can do to help win that fight is to buy 5th wall on bonds now the fifth war loan campaign gets underway in Milwaukee rear-admiral AS carpenter commander of the ninth Naval District welcomed by badger states war Activities Committee as the navy war bond exposition opens to a crowd of over 100,000 browsing rally on the homefront backing the boys on the beachhead Admiral carpenter tells of the tasks ahead for all Americans before victory can be completely one they are auctioning off our handsome thoroughbred at a war bond rally at Indianapolis Indiana a colt named after Gene trainer starlet in the motion picture home in Indiana who will be the highest bidder in jester colt why Vigo County with well bond purchases of five and a half million and bears Jeanne Crain and governor shrikar mr. Van Orman on behalf of the Indiana Finance Committee I am very proud to present to you this fine filleted jeanne crain which represents the winning of Vigo County for having purchased the most bonds at this option sale tonight the bids of Vigo County were in excess of five million dollars and we're very proud indeed of that fine record the Colt seems finally please thanks for bringing in all that money for Laura born you vice president Wallace Treasury secretary Morgenthau and vice president-elect Roman it's a pleasure mr. secretary to participate in the sixth war loan drive I hope you put the series ii over the top this time Thanks I've got the money oh thank you mr. secretary I have the world's best investments you bet you have President Roosevelt urges the nation to buy bond the war in this present month of November you November alone will cost us seven and one-half of billions of dollars that is 250 million dollars a day and that is why every war bond that you buy is so important we can all practice self-denial we can all sacrifice some of our comforts the needs of the men and services with an old saying about sticking to the plough until you have reached the end of the furrow every rule of common sense patriotic thought makes that Maxim applicable to our conduct of the rest of the war in the name of our wounded and sick in the name of our dead and in the name of future generations of Americans I ask you to plow out that thorough to a successful and victorious end your war bonds in action your money men and material in a new super offensive to drive the Nazi legions back to the River Rhine and here in Hurtgen forest on German soil anti-aircraft batteries in the strange role of field artillery the reason no Nazi planes to shoot at so they shoot at Nazi troops day and night the Western Front now rocks with an average of two allied tons of shells every minute ammunition that your war bonds must keep replaced just behind their own barrage in Hurtgen forest the infantry bivouacs waiting for the word to move out then it comes and through the woods just raised by artillery and air power the infantry in coordinated attack stalking whatever Nazis may remain alive to fight nazi machine gone ahead hit the dirt the days bag of prisoners and Hurtgen forest typical of a german army being hammered to pieces along a 400-mile front by six allied army the british second the American ninth first third and seventh and the French first and now on the Western Front on UFO winter blizzards that add to the ordeal that Allied soldiers bravely bear but no sacrifice can stop them in their iron determination so smash the Nazi war machine and come home you can speed that day and ease their trials by investing extra money in America's sixth war loan drive get on the buying line and back up the firing line you owe it to these men your gallant fighting yang