GLENN MILLER: A MUSICAL CONTRIBUTION BY AMERICA’S BEST FOR OUR ARMED FORCES OVERSEAS, Collectors’ Choice Music, $29.98.
During World War II the United States Army and Navy distributed thousands of shellac phonographic records (V Discs) to American troops overseas as a morale booster. These historic recordings have been sonically cleaned from the original 78 rpm acetates for this 52-track boxed set, which includes many of the hits recorded by band leader Glenn Miller during his short career.
Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, […]
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If you needed some motivation during the war years, there was probably a poster for that.
