It's Everybody's War

7/19/2025

There’s something more personal about this wartime feature as, narrated by Henry Fonda, it shows us a normal American town going from never believing they could be attacked to dealing with the aftermath of Pearl Harbour and beyond. The ordinary lads who train using second hand kit and wooden machine guns soon depart for the Philippines and there meet the full force of the encroaching, highly trained and well armed, foe. Many are killed, many are taken prisoner and the message for those at home is to persevere. Initially, bad news is the exception and it doesn’t really govern the behaviour of the majority. Sadly, though, those devastating telegrams become more frequent and so the efforts to recycle just about everything and the encouragement to buy war bonds goes into overdrive. The choice