COLLECTIONS

Homefront Effort

This research subject guide, curated by Foundation librarians, is a collection of primary source material from the Marshall Research Library and Archives.

3e Emprunt De La Defense Nationale – Credit Lyonnais
4-116 Speech for Third War Loan Drive, September 23, 1943
4-222 Radio Statement by General Marshall on the Fourth War Loan Drive, January 31, 1944
7th war loan Now all together
85 million Americans hold war bonds
A Safe And Patriotic Investment
A.E.F. to the President
An Investment Guaranteed By The State
Appeal to Women
Are YOU in this?
Attack attack attack Buy war bonds
Back The Empire With Your Savings
Back Them Up – My Duty
Be a victory farm volunteer in the U.S. Crop Corps See your principal
Be generous in victory Give a virginian’s share Your community war fund
Beat back the Hun with Liberty Bonds
Bowl them over more production.
Bring him Home with a Victory Load
Buy More Liberty Bonds
Buy War Loan
Clear-The-Way-!!
Compagnie Algerienne
Compagnie Des Notaries De Paris & Du Department De La Seine
Comptoir National D’escompte De Paris
Credit Commercial De France
Crush The Germans
Deliver us from evil Buy war bonds
Dinner as the Weapon, Kitchen as the Battleground: Food Rationing in World War II and Its Effect on Women
Don’t let that shadow touch them
Emprunt De La Defense Nationale
Emprunt De La Liberation – On Les A
Eux Aussi! Font Leur Devoir
Fight or Buy Bonds
Fire Away! Buy Extra Bonds
Five Shillings And Help Your Country To Win
General Marshall speaking at “Back the Attack” Show for war bonds on Washington Monument grounds
General Marshall speaking at “Back the Attack” Show for war bonds on Washington Monument grounds
General Marshall speaking at “Back the Attack” Show for war bonds on Washington Monument grounds
Get your farm in the fight! use conservation methods for bigger yields now
Give to your war fund for our own for our allies
Grow your own be sure! garden for victory in 1945
Halt the Hun!
Help Crush The Germans
Help him win by Saving and Serving
Historians on the homefront American propagandists for the great war [by] George T. Blakey
Homefront
Invest 5/- To-Day In The War Loan
Invest In The War Loan
Invest Your 5/- Today
Joan of Arc Saved France
Just be sure you put at least 10% of it in War Bonds; Top that 10%!
Keep him flying! buy war bonds.
Keep us flying buy war bonds.
Keep Your War Savings Pledge
L’emprunt De La Liberation
L’or Combat Pour La Victoire
Lend Your Savings To The Nation To-Day
Let’s End It – Quick With Liberty Bonds
Miracle of World War II how American industry made victory possible
My Soldier
Next! Japan 6th War Loan
Norman Rockwell’s World War II : impressions from the homefront / Susan E. Meyer ; foreword by Robert F. McDermott
Oh please do! Daddy
Oil for victory the story of petroleum in war and peace … by the editors of Look
On Les Aura!
On Souscrit A La Banque D’alsace Et De Lorraine
Our Daddy is Fighting at the Front for You
Over the Top for You
Plant a victory garden our food is fighting. A garden will make your rations go further
Pour Celle Qui Chaque Jour Grandit
Pour Le Supreme Effort
Pour Que Vos Enfants Ne Connaissent Plus Les Horreurs De La Guerre
Protect his future buy and keep war bonds
Remember Belgium
Remember! The Flag of Liberty
Republique Francaise
Ruffle Aprons to Rivet Guns
Save freedom of speech Buy war bonds
Save freedom of worship Buy war bonds
Silver Bullets That Will Stop The Germans
Someone blabbed Don’t talk about ship movements! Don’t talk about war production! Button your lip!
Souscrives Au 4e. Emprunt National – Credit Lyonnais
Souscrivez A / L’emprunt De La ‘Victorie’
Souscrivez Pour La Victoire
Speed The Silver Bullet
Steel rails to victory
Take Up The Sword Of Justice
That Liberty Shall Not Perish From The Earth
The British Sovereign Will Win
The Man, Be He Rich Or Poor
The mobilization of the United States in World War II : how the government, military, and industry prepared for war / by V.R. Cardozier
To have and to hold Buy war bonds
To have and to hold! War bonds
Turn Your Silver Into Bullets
Uncle sam sets the best table Chip in for the chow Buy war bonds now
V for victory : America’s home front during World War II / by Stan Cohen
V is for victory : the American home front during World War II / Sylvia Whitman
V was for victory : politics and American culture during World War II / John Morton Blum
Vital for Victory: American Women on the Homefront During World War II
Votre Argent
Vous Aussi Faites Votre Devoir
W. Waring Jett delivering $500 War Bond to General Marshall as a contribution to the Fourth War Bond Drive
Wanted Men Munitions Money
War Loan Invest To-Day
We’ll have lots to eat this winter, won’t we mother: Grow your own, Can your own
Weapons for Liberty
Winning the War with Women
Women! Help Americas Sons Win the War
You can’t afford to miss either! Buy bonds every payday
You Have In Your Pocket Silver Bullets
Your War Savings Pledge

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Selected Works of General John W. Vessey, Jr., 22 June 1982-30 September 1985

Vessey Selected Works (pdf) This presents material drawn from the public record of General John W. Vessey’s service—22 June 1982 through 30 September 1985—as the Tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Arranged in chronological order, the material is drawn from his speeches, Congressional testimony, published articles, selected correspondence and interviews. It reflects General […]

Gleason and Margaret Wilson Collection

Gleason and Margaret Wilson Biography (pdf) A short biographical summary of the World War II experiences of Gleason and Margaret Wilson. Archival research and exhibit (on display from June 2018 until January 2019) by Marshall Museum Summer 2018 intern Leah Ingle, a graduate student in History at Liberty University.

Glossary of Terms Used in the ECA

The following pages contain a list of the technical terms used most frequently in Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) operations.

Photograph of a young Vietnamese Boy, 1968
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Sometime in 1968, C. W. Bowman took care of a young Vietnamese boy. He picked him up off the streets in Saigon during the Tet offensive (January-September of 1968). The boy’s family had been killed and he was living on the street. Charles Bowman bought him a uniform and fed him at the Company area.

FRA-00996, Tourism
Call Number: FRA-00996 Collection:

Scene along country road in northern France.

Photographs

FRA-00998, Wheat
Call Number: FRA-00998 Collection:

A wheat field in France.

Photographs

FRA-00997, Manufacturing in northern France., October 2, 1948
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Factory under construction in northern France.

Photographs

FRA-00995, Wheat
Call Number: FRA-00995 Collection:

Wheat field in France.

Photographs

FRA-00993, Agriculture/Wheat
Call Number: FRA-00993 Collection:

Wheat field in northern France. In the background, coal mine and huge slag heap.

Photographs

FRA-00994, Coal
Call Number: FRA-00994 Collection:

Full coal cars in northern French coal mine.

Photographs

Date: 1880-1959