Sacrifice and Shortages - America Goes to War (Episode #3)
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- Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2015
- AMERICA GOES TO WAR: THE HOMEFRONT Episode #3
This episode examines how Americans coped with food and gas rationing and shortages of cigarettes and nylons.
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There are victory gardens, scrap drives, the black market, and the first national income tax. Celebrities such as Jack Benny and Jimmy Durante help boost civilian morale.
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I've been a WWII enthusiast my whole life. I credit my Mom for that. I grew up in the 60s listening to her stories of her growing up in the 40s. She was 10 when the war ended. So I could easily see myself in her recallections. Her dad owned a small cheese factory in Wisconsin. Thus he wasn't in the service. They wouldn't take him. Ma told me of the rationing. How the boys collected scrap metal and her Mom collected the grease from cooking to be taken to the butcher shop to be turned in. It was used to manufacture explosives. There was the day when their one-room school house was let out of class so all the kids could go out back and pick milk weed pods. They were stuffed into gunny sacks and sent off to make life preservers for the Navy. She mentioned that since they had a cheese factory, they were a bit better off than most folks. Her dad would trade dairy items for gas, tires, shoes, sugar, etc... A bit illegal, but it was excepted as just normal business. That's how it was. I could listen to Ma's stories all day. Thanks Mom.
Gramma told me of the bacon fat recycling for explosives.💥 It was a housewives duty. I later told a friend , he assured me I was full of 💩. Came home from work a couple months later, and he apologized. I took it well, except that he railed about it for an hour after telling the tale & I never knew my Grams to lie. The Discovery channel 📺 educated him. Grandpa was a butcher and did the same for home. Made Mustangs for North American Aviation during the war& got extra ration allowances.
I was a child of the 60s myself and heard similar stories about WW2... Dad was an Officer in the Army and I listened to his stories, and learned some military "hints and tips" which served me well when I served.
I can't help but wonder what people back then, my folks included, would say about the myriad of strange events in 2020/21...? I know my parents would be absolutely mortified at what happened at the Capitol, etc etc...
My grandmother's family were bootleggers as well as local law enforcement. She told me of trading alcohol for needed things. She would go to the dances and her dance card was mostly truck drivers that bought their illegal alcohol. My grandfather's female cousins related "rolling" the abusive and men on their dance cards to provide for their families while their husband's were away at war.
I remember the paper drives at school when I was very little! I still have a ration book in my name with some stamps that my mother saved. I was born in '43.
My mom was born today October 2 43 and her name was Vivian as well as her mom and grandma.
My mother recently gave me her ration books that her mother ( My Grandmother) signed and used for her as a child. It’s a wonderful chunk of history handed down to me but I regret that I was ignorant and never asked my grandmother what it was like before she passed, but then again I was very young at the time. To this day I ask my mother if she remembers anything of it but she can’t. She said however they ate a lot of vegetables, hot dogs and beans. It must have been bad because she does remember at Christmas they would get fresh oranges in there stocking. It’s a extremely humbling thought when your think what the generation has today and how they would have a very hard time doing without all they have accessible to them today.
Grandpa was a butcher and had to participate in the ration program, although he went by the rules. Their home was never short for meat. He also worked by night at an aviation factory and got extra allowance Stamps for tires and gas and shoes.. We found some old ration stamps in a trunk and dad's eyes got wide and told us more that he saw as a boy during the war. Dad was born on December 7, 1936. Luxury was just that & you made do with what you had till Victory.
I was born in 1936,depression days and WW2 beginning. Rationing meant not a lot of food for 4 little kids. Our stepfather in the war. Flew a cargo plane in China. Could have died fighting for China. No good deed goes unpunished! He will be 100 years old this Dec. 12th, 2019!
He fought for the Republic of China, our good friends now exiled on Taiwan.
Good luck to you, my dad was born December 7, 1936.- 12- 31-98' 😇 Here's to you & your family's health.
As an American, i know we didn't suffer like our UK and European counterparts. When you read any US recipe from the time, that is trying to save on sugar. And it tells you to just use the equivalently amount of corn syrup instead. You know, that the food situation is generally ok.
You are just stupid...
I wonder if anyone tried that "the dog ate my ration book!" line to get more ration stamps.
I suppose they did, dog food was under ration, so a few hungry dogs could have eaten the ration books due to hunger
Man wish we could pull together as one now.
One what?
@@willg.6168 nation?
Perhaps another war is what we need to get that accomplished.
March 19, 2020 - At the time of great fear and panic in our country, with the coronavirus mania going on, I must put things in perspective and look at life back during World War II. This is my calming remedy, my peace, and now my salvation.
March 27th 2020..Trump signs Defense Production Act....
We're going to War against Coronavirus
@@jamescurran9002 ha! yes, we see what a great leader he has been, 8 months later, when close to 300,000 have died of the corona virus ... more than died in WWII. And now, he's been soundly defeated, and won't leave his bedroom. Completely stopped on the job, during one of the worst crises we've ever faced. I'm ashamed of him.
@@patricias5122 Because of the tremendous success of operation warp speed, you soon will have the opportunity to receive the Trump vaccine.
@@patricias5122 are you sure 300,000 have died from COVID-19? My friend's 78 year old step-father who had lung cancer for two years passed away a few months ago from his lung cancer ... his death certificate said COVID-19. Never tested positive for COVID-19. Died from lung cancer. Hospitals get money from the state/federal government based on COVID-19 cases/deaths ... so ... again ... are you sure? Don't be a sheeple.
@@fortyniner3071 trump vaccine you need some because something is wrong with you
It'd be nice to be as united nowadays ... This is when politicians actually fought for us
Agree. We won't be this united again I'm afraid. We have some folks in this county that would pass out tea and cookies to an invading army if they crossed the border into the US.
@@austx290 We're giving away transportation, cellphones, education, healthcare, and providing food and lodging for those currently invading our country. I think they blew right past the tea & cookies. But I get your point. 😉
Don't be a fool, no politician ever fought for you. 'The ones who call the shots won't be among the dead and maimed' or have you forgotten your John McCutcheon already?
You are right in a lot of ways but we have a lot more rights now than we did then.
The United States Of America Was Lucky They Still Had Meat, In Japanese Occupied Malaya You Just Got Sweet Potatoes, Potatoes Or You Had Nothing, Meat, Fish And Vegetables Went To The Imperial Japanese Army
Who else is just here for Eric Sevareid? He died long before my time but he rocked!
Answers for my class
1Because there were labor gaps due to so many people joining the army
2Shipping lanes cut off and territories occupied
3Because of meet rationing
4 If you had family members out at war and if they had been killed
5Where Americans would donate medal to be used for the war
6 Rubber shortage
7 For their gas rations
8 Because of gas rations
9 Heavy marketing and promotion
10 Helped organize scrap drives and other such things
Oct. 2, 2019---Thanks for the video as I've always enjoyed watching any video produced during WW 2. In watching these Victory Garden videos, it reminds me of the number of people today who are into gardening whether it's just like people did in back then in their back/front yards, but also wonder how many got into this, but going for square foot gardening. Who knows...maybe more than one thought a garden would be a good idea because they saw these films.
William Good, thank you for replying. You may be right, but you have more faith in today's generation than I do. Only hard times make you tough and we have it to easy today.
this is the BEST series I've found on what life in the homefront was like during wwii...
looks up glenn miller band to find alotta this music
If only we were as cooperative to positive change as we were back then, back when Americans weren't so entitled.
Produced 1989 PBS. Eric Sevareid died in 1992.
Fantastic view! Thank u for sharing.
We not only got stuck with Income Tax, we ended up with the IRS. From my personal experience, the Gestapo had nothin' on those boys. :)
Ww2 rationing was real, mostly in the sense it existed, but was really used as a tool to bolster the war effort and make people feel like they were at war. This worked well as it encouraged people to work around the clock to produce the equipment to win the war. Even though America at the time was simply a mirror image of what was happening in England, it is amazing what that generation was able to accomplish. I'm not sure today's privileged generation could do the same.
John, let's not underestimate the present generation. They may be somewhat spoiled compared to survivors of the Depression who had to go to way but make no mistake. They are even more creative and better educated than their grandparents and if circumstances came about I have no doubt whatsoever they'd be superior and would not let us down.
Nope
@@WmGood Better educated? Have you seen what it being taught these days? Like 2 + 2 does NOT equal 4.
I will be very blunt: the current generation would lay down and cry and want to present their time out card.
Terrific video!
“Flirting with bootleggers during prohibition”. In other words, pretty much everyone broke the law and some criminals got super rich.
If anybody wanted to know the music is in the mood by Glenn Miller
Yep! I recognized it immediately!
This shows how America came together during a crisis. Nowadays all you hear about is people complaining about having to wear masks, that they can't go to the beach, etc. What happened to us?
People complained then about rationing and many found ways to cheat the system for themselves or in the black market, just like they skirt and scoff the need to mask now. Back then, people risked fines and imprisonment for stamp fraud and black marketing. Now they *might* be barred from a store or other public place or they might not, and the President is proud of going around barefaced. The message hasn't been consistent and positive from our national leaders, and it shows.
Yes, people refusing to wear a scrap of cloth over their face have resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths of the corona virus, which is preventable. It makes me very ashamed. And nose replies like, "liberalism" ? What does that even mean? How does that excuse the abominable selfishness of people who refuse to wear a mask and social-distance, to prevent sickening and dying of others?
@@hiraeth2044 But it's people who claim to be Conservative who generally refuse to do it.
@@hiraeth2044 no it's called trying to save lives and its conservatives who are complaining
West coast beaches, were closed during the war except of course for residential areas & lookouts and defensive emplacements were built, ready for anything.
I wonder what became of that steak LOL
I imagine someone ate it.
You got that 100% right! I still think we can
I've finally found the full episode, I love ww2 lifestyle documentary
subscribed.
At 23:21 a young Garry Moore and Jimmy Durante from the WWII era equals the 1950s cartoon characters Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy . " That's my boy who said that ! " .
@0:26 1942 "Don't blame us, blame Hitler!" 2022 "Don't blame us, blame Putin!"
The chalkboard sign of dinner for 20c may have been from the 1930s. Theres a model A in the background and an average dinner in th '40s was about $2.oo.
Plus, would think restaurants would also be under meat rationing. Pictures can be deceptive.
The population of the United States back then was like 150 million.
That's fewer than half of today's total American population of roughly 330 million, but during the war, over 16 million Americans served in the United States Armed Forces, with over 400,000 killed in action and over 670,000 wounded.
There were also more than 130,000 American POW's, of whom fewer than 117,000 came home after the war.
We take our freedom, our families, and our overall way of life very seriously here in the United States.
And even if we occasionally get duped into electing a con man as President, our system we have always fought so vigorously to defend assures that whatever obstacles are created for us, or that we create ourselves, will always eventually be overcome.
Yeah, Obama was a huge mistake! Shame on those people who voted for the grifter from Chicago.
Census of 1940 says 132 million.
Yes, true and we had some bad con men too, terrible people and not a true American citizen, insane. (Obama)
Thanks for sharing. When was this produced?
1990
Rationing during WW2 was not all that necessary for some items. True there were some real shortages of materials but rationing was the major way to have ALL Americans with 'skin in the game' so a lot of items were deliberately 'rationed' to maintain public support. Otherwise, if people could get almost everything they could before the war their support would have been less enthusiastic and there would have been discontentment over the prolonged war and the deaths it caused. Propaganda was equally vital to keeping the populous on track but unless there was scarcity of goods it alone wouldn't have sustained support for nearly as long as it did.
What kinds of things were actually not in short supply, even allowing for shipments to England? I am pretty sure the situation in England was real.
Revisionist BS. Dude you have no clue only what the woke idiots tell you. People worked their tails off not because of propaganda but because they wanted their CHILDREN who were fighting and dying to have the best they could provide for them. If not their children; then their neighbors children or from other parts of the family. You truly have no clue about that time.
It's kind of sad to see what they had to give up and sacrifice but its comforting to notice how willing they were and how much dedication they had to ensuring the United States of America had everything it needed to win the war with success. Now we fight a Pandemic War and we don't know how to assemble and unite to effectively win this one.
Remember our country was emerging from the great depression , then into war, and although things may be tight, our nation came together the likes our generation never experienced. Our grandparents were a tough lot.
My city was number one in the country in gas ration counterfeiting.
“For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.” Eph 6:12
amen
Ian Beck agreed. We live in a very troubled time. God bless you!!
Just the tires alone, from a country as large as ours probably overwhelmed the enemy. I cant even
Imagine the amounts of steel and aluminum(although aluminum was a relatively new material) we could muster from scrap. When the war ended, essentially the day after, rationing stopped in the US. The UK had to endure several years more(I think ). People can come together to work against a common enemy. 9/11 showed that. Germany and Japan underestimated our willingness to fight. We showed them the error of that thinking. We could do it again.
America is not perfect but we do kick ass and try to do the right thing.
This documentary is the best. I just wish I knew the titles of all the music that is used
Mark Poggioli look up
glenn miller
tommy dorsey
bing crosby and the andrews sisters
bob crosby
I recently became aware of the google smartphone app called SHAZAM. I loaded it, pointed my phone at the computer playing the documentary and BOOM I could see and hear every song. Amazing. Thanks Mr. Yeager.
Benny Goodman!....The Big Band Era!
Love how the congressman were allowed “x” gas cards. Things never change.
what is the song in the beginning of this video?
Here it is - ruclips.net/video/dgha9S39Y6M/видео.html
Luis Jaimes ruclips.net/video/ovNeeXFXx38/видео.html
...’In the Mood’, Glenn Miller Band...:)
The woman in the butcher shop was a scary looking cronie....lol..
What’s the name of the swing song in the beginning?
In the mood by Glen Miller ( I think)
“in the mood”, Glenn Miller.
When we believed our country was something to support snd be proud of! It’s hard to feel the same looking at all that has happened since then. I live my country but not politics that guide us into danger😮😮
Now can you imagine US citizens lining up to help fight China?
Yes, I can especially when the autrocities of the CCP come to light. Mao was a bigger mass murderer than Hitler
Hemp for Victory.
Off topic. But damned were we a thinner, more modest group during this time. When keeping appearance was all the rage. What happened to us? Best of times, yet we are fat, dress inappropriately, have exposed tattoos, and wear ghetto hoodies, flip flops,. Not to mentioned being hung up on identity, and race like it was still 1950. Triggered at the slightest, and being an informant, and shutting down anyone who disagrees with you. What a shame. We now live in a world where we are the enemy to ourselves. Embracing intolerance and a blinded following of a now acceptable culture of degeneracy, and depraved behaviors. When your world only revolves around yourself. Its clearly not ending well. I live in Los Angeles. Its dystopian what’s going on here. 😞
Can't we all just get along!?
Know of what you say , SoCal native too since 62'
Ok Boomer. Sure, it's tattoos, hoodies, and flip flops that are the problem. And it's probably rough for you now that you can't be a bigot anymore. Poor baby.
Goes to show once you let someone take your money it will never stop and they will only want more. Once the war was paid off, so many things to buy with other people's money!
You've got a point. But the overarching point is that raising taxes is codified in the US Constitution.
And don't forget people file tax returns to get that money back.
car pools are fun ! .. so have a lucky strike ! zaaaap the jaaaps !
.80 cents per lb black market that is 11.84 in today's money per lb yikes!
Sooo...$5 less than the average prime beef price in my area?
so income tax came about due to the war. who knew?
It existed before the war, but far fewer people paid it. Paycheck deduction was also introduced because the government needed cash now, not when everyone filed at the beginning of the next year.
Unfortunately this also allowed for constant incremental increases. Most people don't notice a few more dollars missing from their pay. But it would be quite obvious if you had to pay all at once.
When the income tax was first introduced, it was pitched as a tax on a few rich banking and industrial families, mostly upper East Coast. So the majority who supported it assumed they'd never have to pay. Remember this whenever a tax is proposed on group X. You will be told it won't effect you, it will.
I think it started in the Civil war didn't it?
The upbeat jazz tunes make it seem like a fun adventure.
At least we were not obese or overweight and were in BETTER health.
Wow! Lots of info and a lot to think about in our silly selfish overabundant lives. With the population increase.... You would think that the Income Tax would have made enough money to support every government program in the nation for the next century. Makes you wonder where it went and where it's going.
Arms are expensive
@@mackenziedrake BAHAHAHAHAHA!!! EXACTLY!
America did great in all its sacrifice for the war. I think it makes an excellent example for the church today of how we should be sacrificing and giving for the sake of the gospel going to every nation, to every language.
15% of the current generation under 30 years of age would be willing to live under different form of government as long as they could have their cell phones, toys, etc. the problem is, they don't realize that the one who does the giving can also be the one who takes it away
US should have done all this during COVID pandemic just like they did back then during WWII.
Oh don't worry, will be going through this soon enough what with the recession, the collapsing economy, food shortages, gas shortages, etc. We'll be able to bring back those good old days of wartime rationing again!
and remembah .. keep womennn of the rooooad .. riding shotgun to the wife is a ride with hitlah! .. lucky strike !
I listened it's all abouts military, chatted over and over again.. after the war's its over and a soldiers gots shot and wounded they no longers can..survived let's go..a former man wearing, military uniforms.. walked too yous, hands a former soldiers a discharged infor..walked..aways..
not for nothing but ... I remember watching videos about the field rations ... annnnd I don't remember seeing any of these nice steaks in those rations ... sooo where was all the excess meat going? ..it's nice congress got unlimited gas cards too .. they're so essential "rolls eyes"
If you look at east german rations: Maximum rations for heavy workers and party functionaries...
I Hereby TRADMARK The Phrase "Don't Blame Us Blame PUTIN & XI!"
Today the entitled would be whining!
8:23 to 8:31......OOF
gov found out how to get money from the people
Do you think america could solve there obesity problems,, if rashaning were introduced today,,?
Just saying,,
then they all went back and ran a train on lana turner
This is necessary today to fit climate change
10:02 more truer than ever today,and it is okay to prefer your own involved in the hast that rhymes with face!!!
0:25? Pretty sure it was the asian man to blame not our European cousins.