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Archive-name: world-war-2-faq
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Contents:

1) History of this forum
2) Charter (Original Text)
3) Moderation Policy
4) Moderation Policies (Amendments 1994)
5)* Moderation Policies (Amendments 1995)
6)* Moderators List. Add/del policy. Setup
7) Why this forum exists
8) Where & How to submit articles
9) Some Helpful tips
10)* World War II Archives: Resource Sites
11)* 50 YA Archive & Other Files on World-Wide Web (www)
12) Books on World War II
13) Movies on World War II
14)* Weekly Admin posting on the Newsgroup
15)* This FAQ: Archive Info, History & Credits

* Updated or New for this revision of FAQ.

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Subject: 1) History of this forum

NewsGroup: soc.history.war.world-war-ii
Description: History & Events of World War Two.

Status: moderated

Proponent: Joel Furr (jf...@acpub.duke.edu)

Request for Discussion: Feb 21, 1994
Call for Votes: March 23, 1994
Voting Ended: April 13, 1994 23:59:59 UTC
Vote Taker: UVV
Votes: 181 in favor, 17 against

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Subject: 2) Charter (Original Text)

Author: Joel Furr

Discussion of the era 1939-1945 in particular, but ranging as far b=
ack
as 1918 and as far forward as the 1950's for discussion of eve=
nts
leading to the War and post-war events such as the occupation of Ja=
pan
and Germany. The discussion will be limited to social, politic=
al,
military, economic, technological, demographic, and historial aspects=
of
World War II, including discussion of:

* Arms limitations treaties in the 1920's, intended to head
off any future war
* the Weimar Republic
* the rise of the Italian Fascists
* the Japanese war with China
* the rise of the Nazi Party
* American isolationism
* Franco-British appeasement
* Italian misadventures in Africa
* German occupation of the Sudentenland and Austria
* the war proper, 1939-1945
* the Manhattan Project
* the Holocaust
* Post-war occupation of Japan and Germany
* Post-war governments of Europe
* and so on.

In other words, the mandate for soc.history.war.world-war-ii is inten=
ded
to be broad, rather than narrow, with moderation in place less to li=
mit
discussion than to keep out Gannon and the Holocaust Revisionists =
and
other malicious posters. Should Dan Gannon or Serdar Argic sub=
mit
articles which actually discuss World War Two rather than spread=
ing
their brand of conspiracy theory, their articles will be approved =
for
submission as well.

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Subject: 3) Moderation Policy

Soc.history.war.world-war-ii will have a very relaxed moderation poli=
cy.
The main purpose, as noted above, for moderation of this group is=
to
prevent it from turning into a revisionist flamefest akin =
to
misc.headlines or soc.history. As such, any message which actua=
lly
discusses World War II will be approved for posting, provided that=
it
does not attempt to claim that events such as the Holocaust ne=
ver
happened. There are other groups for discussion of that question, m=
ost
notably, alt.revisionism.

Moderation rules:

* Articles which discuss World War Two and its events will be appro=
ved
for posting.

* Articles arguing that the Holocaust never happened will not=
be
approved for posting.

* Articles must contain original thought. Lengthy quoting of sou=
rce
material with a couple of lines of comment at the end will =
not
be approved for posting.

* Blank messages, test messages, advertisements, MAKE.MONEY.FAST, and=
so
forth, will not be approved for posting.

* Articles which include excessive quoting (e.g. an article which quo=
tes
an entire other article in order to add a few comments at the e=
nd)
will be trimmed down by the moderator in question.

* An article MUST have a valid reply-to address or it will not=
be
approved for posting.

* Rejected articles will be shared with the other moderators for gr=
oup
consideration.

As noted below, the group will be group-moderated, to minimize de=
lay
between submission and posting and to keep the group running when =
the
traffic becomes heavy.

ADDENDUM: 'War Buddies' [June 94]

We've had a few of this type of message lately, and it seems to be a "gra=
y
area" in our charter. These messages don't _really_ discuss WW2, and the=
y
don't have any real historical content.

People who want to search for old war buddies should post to soc.veterans.

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Subject: 4) Moderation Policies (Amendments 1994)

The moderators of soc.history.war.world-war-ii, in exercise of th=
eir
rights to clarify & amend moderation policies for the news gro=
up,
clarify & amend the moderation policies for
soc.history.war.world-war-ii.

These amendments are effective immediately. Any questions should=
be
addressed to: ww2...@acpub.duke.edu.

QUOTED TEXT:

Any article that contains more than fifty percent quoted material (=
and
the author's signature shall not count as original material for purpo=
ses
of determining the proportion) may be trimmed or rejected at =
the
discretion of the moderator. In exercising this discretion, t=
he
moderator shall take readability considerations into account, such=
as
the amount of quoted material at the beginning of the message, and =
the
size of the blocks of quoted material. An article in which the aut=
hor
has included a long article as a quote without making any effort to t=
rim
the quoted article may be rejected. A moderator may trim quoted mater=
ial
from any article at his discretion.

SIGNATURE LENGTH:

In keeping with Usenet netiquette conventions, signatures should =
be
restricted to four lines. Moderators may, at their discretion, t=
rim
.sigs to four lines before posting articles.

POSTINGS SEEKING 'WAR BUDDIES'

Soc.history.war.world-war-ii is a forum for discussion of WW2 even=
ts,
not to seek out war buddies. Soc.veterans is the most appropri=
ate
newsgroup to seek out individual veterans. Moderators may, at th=
eir
discretion, reject articles that seek out individual veterans =
and
suggest that they be redirected to soc.veterans. However, the moderat=
ors
also recognize that some requests in that vein can generate g=
ood
discussions of history or of resources for WW2 research. Therefo=
re,
moderators will evaluate such articles before rejecting them, =
and
moderators may post such articles if they decide that they have =
the
potential to generate WW2 discussion of general interest to the read=
ers
of the newsgroup.

-June 95-

REGARDING ANNOUNCEMENTS

Moderators may accept articles announcing the availability of n=
ew,
scholarly materials, if the moderators determine, in the exercise=
of
their discretion, that the announcement of such scholarly materi=
als
furthers the purposes of the newsgroup. The posting of any s=
uch
announcements by commercial enterprises does not mean that =
the
moderators will feel obliged to post all articles from commerc=
ial
sources.Moderators will evaluate all such announcements on an individ=
ual
basis.

SEEKING E-MAIL RESPONSES

Moderators may reject any article that specifies replies by e-mail on=
ly,
if the author does not offer to summarize the e-mail responses for =
the
entire group. Authors should, of course, follow up on offers =
to
summarize, or they risk losing their credibility among the moderat=
ors
and other newsgroup readers.

Moderators will be added by majority vote of the existing moderators =
and
moderators will be removed by 2/3 vote in the event that a moderator=
is
shown to be failing to do the job (i.e. not posting anything).

LIST OF CURRENT MODERATORS FOR soc.history.war.world-war-ii
__________________________________________________________________
Dated: October 16, 1997

1. dr...@comped1.cas.vanderbilt.edu Andrew McMichael
2. ri...@bcm.tmc.edu Richard Miller
3. gra...@ee.washington.edu Stephen Graham

WW2...@ACPUB.DUKE.EDU LISTING: 10/16/97

ri...@bcm.tmc.edu
gra...@ee.washington.edu

WW2...@ACPUB.DUKE.EDU LISTING: 10/16/97

ri...@bcm.tmc.edu
m...@ac.duke.edu
gra...@ee.washington.edu
dr...@comped1.cas.vanderbilt.edu

HISTORY ON PREVIOUS MODERATORS:
______________________________

June 09, 1994 - Due to technical problems moderator resigned.
-------------
ai...@freenet.carleton.ca Gordon McFee

Oct 12, 1994 - E-mail address for moderator John Davis updated.
------------
NEW Address: j...@netcom.com John Davis
OLD Address: j...@osbm.state.nc.us

Oct 24, 1994 - Moderator resigns due to other commitments.
------------
jf...@acpub.duke.edu Joel Furr

Jan 10, 1995 - Resignation confirmed
------------
kmc...@oneb.almanac.bc.ca Ken McVay

Feb 12, 1995 - E-mail address for moderator John Davis updated.
------------
NEW Address: jbd...@nando.net John Davis
OLD Address: j...@netcom.com

Jul 20, 1995 - Moderator resign due to other commitments.
------------
sch...@anubis.network.com Martin Schafer

Mar 28, 1996 - E-mail address for moderator Kenneth Bullock updated.
------------
NEW Address: kbul...@acpub.duke.edu Kenneth Bullock
OLD Address: kbul...@southwind.net

May 27, 1996 - E-mail address for moderator John Davis updated.
------------
NEW Address: jbd...@pobox.comt John Davis
OLD Address: jbd...@nando.net

AUG 13, 1996 - New Moderator Voted-in
------------
gra...@ee.washington.edu Stephen Graham

AUG 14, 1996 - New Moderator Voted-in
------------
cps...@onramp.net Dave

OCT 1996 - Moderator resigned
------------
cps...@onramp.net Dave

Jun 1997 - Moderator resigned
------------
jbd...@pobox.com John Davis

AUG 31 1997 - Moderator resigned
------------
mug...@alumni.caltech.edu Asim Mughal

ADD/DEL POLICY FOR MODERATORS:
_____________________________

MODERATION SETUP/APARATUS
_________________________

This group will be group-moderated using a Majordomo listserver. It =
has
been configured so that each article received at ww2...@acpub.duke.=
edu
will be sent to the next moderator in turn, using a list of subscri=
bed
moderators. Hence, the *submission* address for articles will=
be
ww2...@acpub.duke.edu. The *contact* address for the group, o=
nce
created, will be ww2...@acpub.duke.edu.

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Subject: 7) Why this Forum Exits?

Author: Joel Furr

A war includes more than military events. A war includes soci=
al,
political, economic, military, and demographic events. Discussion o=
f a
war typically includes the *war era* and not just the war. Pres=
ent
groups which exist to discuss military issues are very specif=
ic:
sci.military, alt.folklore.military, alt.war. All of these tend to fo=
cus
very strongly on the military aspects and less on the historical =
and
other aspects. Soc.history.war.world-war-ii will encompass all aspe=
cts
of war.

Discussion of World War II and wars in general takes place on a w=
ide
range of newsgroups, many of which specialize on recent milit=
ary
history. The most notable example of war discussion taking pl=
ace
elsewhere is the World War II mailing list, which averages 800 kiloby=
tes
per month of traffic and which almost closed down after presenting =
far
too great a load on its moderators than they could handle. =
The
moderators of the list are in support of the proposed newsgroup as =
the
subject is far larger than can be easily dealt with in mailing l=
ist
form. A newsgroup is needed.

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Subject: 8) Where & How to submit articles ?

There are two ways to do so:

A- Thru USENET

While reading newsgroup soc.history.war.world-war-ii simply respond=
to
the artilce or post a new article. The article will be automatica=
lly
routed to one of the active moderators for review.

B- Thru E-MAIL

You may submit your article to the following address. Again, y=
our
article will reach one of the moderators for review.

The e-mail address is:

ww2...@acpub.duke.edu

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Subject: 9) Some Helpful Tips

It may take up to 1-2 days for your article to be reviewed and anot=
her
day or so for the article to reach your site after being posted fro=
m a
moderator's site.

Articles not deemed fit for posting on the forum will be returned by =
the
moderator with an explanation citing a rationale & the guidelines of =
the
forum.

1. Always save a copy of your article you submit till it appears on =
the
forum.

2. If o The article does not appear on the newsgroup o The article =
was
not returned back by the moderator o AND 3 days have elapsed.

Then please contact the moderators, asap, at the following em=
ail
address:

ww2...@acpub.duke.edu

FTP SITE
--------
<jew...@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Larry & Kim Jewell) June 8, 1994>

Host: byrd.mu.wvnet.edu
Directory: /pub/history/military/wwii
Login: anonymous
Password: _your_email_address

Directory Listing:

150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (131.215.139.234,3498) (0 bytes).
4307.txt* command.decisions/ pictures/
50.years.later/ conferences/ policy/
D-Day/ declaration.of.war/ sept_1939/
U.S.Army.campaigns/ gpo_wwii.txt* special.studies/
USN_wwii/ justice.pap* speeches/
active_carriers.txt* national_arc.txt* treaties/
balkans.txt* naval_chronology/ wwii-l_digests/
chrono_1938-41.txt* pearl.harbor/

June 11,1994: FTP site byrd is accepting contributions of public
domain items for the collection. Items should be
uploaded to /pub/history/submissions.

MORE Info on 'byrd'

<tryh...@popmail.mcs.com (James P. Long) June 14, 1994>

Some of the subdir's in WWII are Battle of the Bulge/Command
Decisions/D-Day/Naval Chronology.

The D-Day material contains very detailed studies of Utah Beach and Omaha
Beach, both done by the War Dept. in 1945 and signed by George Marshall
(they're in .ZIP format).

FTP SITE
--------
<Stupendous Man <BKOT...@FALCON.AAMRL.WPAFB.AF.MIL> June 17 '94>

The ftp address for Miss. State is:

ftp.msstate.edu

Also note that the archives are available from other servers
as mirror files.

Here are some more network archive sites:

Name=3DUnites States Military Academy
Path=3D
Host=3Deuler.math.usma.edu
#
Name=3DHistory articles (various)
Path=3D1ftp:English Server:History:
Host=3Denglish-server.hss.cmu.edu
#
Name=3DWhite House information
Path=3D1/.dir/president.dir
Host=3Dgopher.tamu.edu
Port=3D70
#
Name=3DFederal information services
Path=3D1/Other
Host=3Dstis.nsf.gov
Port=3D70
#
Name=3DHistory Archives and Servers
Path=3D1/Subject/History
Host=3Driceinfo.rice.edu
Port=3D70

FTP SITE
--------

<BKOT...@FALCON.AAMRL.WPAFB.AF.MIL Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 13:32 EDT>
Update Request From:
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 14:53:53 -0500 From: "Jim D." <j...@galt.osd.mil>
http://www.netready.com/Demo/WWIInet/
Type: WWW page
Access: Public
Contributions: Mail to owner

FTP SITE
--------
gpr...@argo.net (richard charlton)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 02:12:56 GMT
ftp.spies.com/Gov/US-History/WWII

Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 08:51:55 -0500
>From: Kenneth Bullock <kbul...@acpub.duke.edu>

URL for this resource is http://www.primenet.com/~custer
---x---

>From: el...@wpi.edu (Andrew Toppan)
Subject: Battleship & Aircraft Carrier info on the WWW
Date: 16 Apr 1995 05:00:49 GMT
# Updated # 3/25/96

Announcing new Battleship and Aircraft Carrier information availa=
ble
on the World Wide Web (WWW):

I have (finally) completed a series of lists that provide informa=
tion
on all US and Canadian aircraft carriers, all Dreadnoughts (world=
wide)
and all US Pre-Dreadnought battleships. Except as noted, all the=
se
lists are my work, compiled from a variety of online and print
resources.

Comprehensive Lists:
-------------------
These provide "vital statistics" on each ship (dimensions, armame=
nt,
etc.) as well as dates laid down, launched, commissioned,
reclassified,
renamed, rebuilt, damaged, decommissioned, stricken, scrapped, et=
c.
This provides a brief history of each ship "in a nutshell". Many
books
have been written on these ships, I don't intend to duplicate tha=
t
work
by including every detail.

Aircraft Carrier Lists(http://www.wpi.edu/~elmer/navy/carriers.ht=
ml)

*Canadian Carriers (from mccl...@ug.cs.dal.ca}
*Pre WWII US CV series
*WWII era US CV series
*Post WWII US CV series
*US Escort Carriers
*US Helicopter/VSTOL Carriers

Battleship Lists (http://www.wpi.edu/~elmer/navy/battleships.html=
)
(these cover *all* dreadnoughts)
*US Pre-Dreadnoughts
*US Dreadnoughts
*British Dreadnoughts
*German Dreadnoughts
*French Dreadnoughts
*Japanese Dreadnoughts
*Italian Dreadnoughts
*French Dreadnoughts
*Russian and Soviet Dreadnoughts
*South American Dreadnoughts (Argentina, Brazil, Chile)
*Minor-Power European Dreadnoughts (Austria-Hungary, Greece,
Netherlands, Spain, Turkey)

Other Lists:
------------
*Current Worldwide List of Aircraft Carriers
*US WWII Carrier Force Levels (ftp'ed from byrd.mu.wvnet.edu}
*Brief listing of British Dreadnoughts, 1906-1960
(from bssb...@zippy.dct.ac.uk}

WWW SITE: U-Boats 1939-45
-----------------
http://rvik.ismennt.is/~gummihe/Uboats/u-boats.htm

From: <10255...@compuserve.com>
Date: 26 Jan 1996 05:13:33 GMT

WWW SITE - GERMAN INFANTRY BOOK
-------------------------------
http://www.infinet.com/~nafziger/books.html

From: gru...@aol.com (Gruppen)
Date: 31 Jan 1996 08:34:47 -0500

FTP SITE - Best of WW2 Newsgroup
--------------------------------
byrd.mu.wvnet.edu
/pub/history/military/wwii/best-of-shwwii

From: "Larry W. Jewell" <lwje...@omni.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 15:39:15 -0500 (EST)

WWW SITE - US Troops in Austria 1945-1955
-----------------------------------------
http://www.image.co.at/image/salzburg

From: how2...@image.co.at (Albert Topitz)

FTP SITE - Files of Interest to WWII
------------------------------------
ftp://ftp.almanac.bc.ca/pub/places/poland/einsatzgruppen/

From: kmc...@nizkor.almanac.bc.ca (Ken McVay OBC)
Date: 7 Nov 1995 08:02:17 -0800

WWW SITE - First Division Museum
--------------------------------
http:///www.xnet.com/~cantigny

From: kuc...@quark.cig.mot.com (Joseph M. Kuchan)
Date: 12 Jun 95 13:44:44 GMT

WWW SITE - Japanese surrender documents
---------------------------------------
http://www.nara.gov/

From: dor...@netcom.com (Merlin Dorfman)
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 23:55:05 GMT

WWW SITE - WW2 Historical re-enactors
-------------------------------------
http://reenactor.clever.net/WW2/

From: ar...@lafn.org (Dwight Dutton)
Date: 13 Aug 1995 12:55:51 GMT

WWW SITE - 82 ABN Museum
------------------------
http://www.fayetteville.net/museum/82ndAirborne/

From: elb <e...@mario11.ppp.ncsu>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:43:14 GMT

WWW SITE - WW2 Pictures
-----------------------
http://www.webcom.com/dheller/wwii.html

From: Dan Heller <dthe...@ix.netcom.com>
Date: 15 Aug 1996 08:59:32 GMT

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Subject: 12) Books on World War II

The following is a listing of some of the books recommended for
reading on the newsgroup by the readers.

MOST RECOMMENDED: Gerhard Weinberg's _A World at Arms_

1. CharlesSmith <soft...@laurel.us.net>
Date: 28 Oct 1995 15:24:00 GMT

HITLERS SPIES - By David Kahn - isbn 0-02-052440-4. It contains
lots of details, lots of refs. and a pile of crypto history!

2. bcos...@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 08:37:16 MST

The Trail of the Fox, by David Irving
The Rommel Papers , by Field Marshall Erwin Rommel
Ifantrie Grieft An (Infantry Attacks), by Erwin Rommel

3. jper...@superior.ccs.carleton.ca
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 04:37:22 GMT

Leasor, James. _Green Beach_. London: Heineman, 1975. A good
introduction, focusing on the intelligence-gathering aspects.

BGen. Denis Whitaker and Shelagh Whitaker. _Dieppe: Tragedy to
Triumph_. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1992.
Quite a good examination of the subject from a variety of viewpoi=
nts.

Brian Loring Villa. _Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the
Dieppe Raid_. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. A very
controversial book, which alleges that Mountbatten pushed ahead w=
ith
the raid despite opposition from his superiors, and without
Churchill's
direct approval.

TOPIC: Wake Island Survivors
FROM : jah...@mediacity.com (Jonathan Horne)
DATED: 01 Jun 96
BOOK :
Brig Gen George Kinney, USMC Ret.
Published in 1995 by Brassey's Washington DC
ISBN 1-57488-035-7

TOPIC: German & Japanese Interaction
FROM : Leo_B...@online.tietokone.fi (Leo Backman)
DATED: 04 Jun '96
BOOKS:

C A U S T O N, E.E.N.
Militarism and Foreign Policy in Japan
Allen & Unwin, London 1936

D E A N E, John R.
The Strange Alliance
Viking Press, New York 1947

I K L E, Frank W.
German-Japanese Relations, 1936-40
Bookman Association, New York 1956

M E S K I L L, Johanna
Hitler and Japan: The Hollow Alliance
Atherton, New York 1966

P R A N G E, Gordon W.
Target Tokyo: The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring
McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York 1984

P R E I S S E N, Ernst L.
Germany and Japan: A Study in Totalitarian Diplomacy,
1933-1941
Martinus Nijhof, the Hague 1958
Oxford University Press, New York 1987

S C H R O E D E R, Paul W.
The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American Relations, 1941
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York 1958

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Subject: 13) Movies on World War II

C050...@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU
Date: Thu, 04 May 95 21:08:53 EDT

Note that these are Hollywood studio releases on subjects with
some connection to WW2 (i.e. Combat films, Homefront, Espionage, Drama an=
d
Comedy). It doesn't include foriegn films, or U.S. Government training,
morale,
indoctrination or documentary films (i.e. Capra, Ford or Wyler's wartime
films)

1944 A-M
Action in Arabia (RKO) - George Sanders, Virginia Bruce, Gene Lockhart
Address Unknown (Columbia) - Paul Lukas, Mady Christians, Morris Carnovsk=
y
The Black Parachute (Columbia -
The Canterville Ghost (MGM) - Charles Laughton, Margaret O'Brien, Robert =
Young
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (Monogram) - Sidney Toler, Benson Fong
The Conspirators (Warner Bros) - Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre
Crime by Night (Warner Bros) - Jane Wyman, Jerome Cowan, Eleanor Parker
The Cross of Lorraine (MGM) - Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Peter Lorre
Cry Havoc (MGM) - Margaret Sullivan, Joan Blondell, Ann Sothern, Fay Bain=
ter
Days of Glory (RKO) - Gregory Peck, Tamara Toumanova, Alan Reed, Maria Pa=
lmer
Destination Tokyo (Warner Bros) - Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale
Dragon Seed (MGM) - Katherine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Turhan Bey, Henry
Travers
Enemy of Women (Monogram) -
The Eve of St. Mark (20th Cent Fox) - Ann Baxter, Vincent Price, Dickie M=
oore
The Fighting Seabees (Republic) - John Wayne, Susan Hayward, William Fraw=
ley
Follow the Boys (Universal) - George Raft, Marlene Dietrich, Orson Welles
Four Jills in a Jeep (20th Cent Fox)- Kay Francis, Martha Raye, Phil Silv=
ers
A Guy Named Joe (MGM) - Van Johnson, Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunn, Ward Bond
Hail the Conquering Hero (Paramount) - Eddie Bracken, William Demarest,
Here Come the Waves (Paramount) - Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts
Hey Rookie (Columbia) -Ann Miller, Larry Parks, Jack Guilford, Joe Sawyer
The Hitler Gang (Paramount)- Robert Watson, Ludwig Donath, Sig Ruman
Hollywood Canteen (Warner Bros) - Bette Davis, John Garfield, Joan Leslie
The Hour Before Dawn (Paramount) - Franchot Tone, Veronica Lake, Binnie B=
arnes
I Love a Soldier (Paramount) - Paulette Goddard, Sonny Tufts, Beulah Bond=
i
The Imposter (Universal) - Jean Gabin, Ellen Drew, Richard Whorf, Allyn J=
oslyn
In Our Time (Warner Bros) - Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Nancy Coleman,
In The Meantime Darling (20th Cent Fox) - Jeanne Crain, Frank Lattimore
Janie (Warner Bros) - Joyce Reynolds, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Alan Ha=
le
Ladies Courageous (Universal)- Loretta Young, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ruth =
Roman
Ladies of Washington (20th Cent Fox) -
Lifeboat (20th Cent Fox) - Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slez=
ak
Make Your Own Bed (Warner Bros) - Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Alan Hale
Man From Frisco (Republic) - Dan Duryea, Michael O'Shay, Anne Shirley
Marine Raiders (RKO) - Pat O'Brien, Ruth Hussey, Robert Ryan, Frank McHug=
h
The Master Race (RKO) - George Colouris, Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen,
Meet the People (MGM) - Lucille Ball, Dick Powell, Virginia O'Brien, Bert=
Lahr
Mr Winkle Goes to War (Columbia) - Edward G Robinson, Ruth Warrick,

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