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Obey Your Air Raid Warden, 1942 (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 month ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/historyporn@lemmy.world
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@PugJesus@lemmy.world I hope this is ok even though it's a video. It seems like the perfect community for it. Totally understand if you delete it.

Anyway...

This is a bizarre short musical film telling Americans what to do in an air raid, obviously made shortly after America entered WWII. I thought it was absolutely fascinating and the sort of bit of history none of us would have known about otherwise, which is why I decided to post it.

It was apparently a song by Tony Pastor and his Orchestra and was also released as a record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPDuBfze5PU

I cannot find much more information about it. Even the Wikipedia page on Tony Pastor is not very helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Pastor_(bandleader)

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[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Wild. 1, I was not expecting the song. Totally was expecting the “voice of god” style 2, the smoking while singing. lol

Brilliant. Thanks

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Did you know that cigarettes were part of standard military rations in WWII? Smoking-related illnesses that those cigarettes led to killed far more people than bullets and bombs in the war.

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

In fact I did.

I saw something last night. About it’s hard to explain to kids today that yes before the 80s everything smelled like cigarettes.

Or something to that effect

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