Hollywood stars directly and indirectly helped sell billions of dollars in war bonds and more.
Here s What You Need to Know: Along with the brave men and women overseas, the motion picture industry served admirably in their own way during World War II.
World War II came to the Hollywood motion picture studios, the “Dream Factories” as they were sometimes called, the day after Pearl Harbor.
“Hollywood became a military camp. Within a day … studio trucks and drivers were transporting army troops and equipment, studio arsenals were stripped of prop (weapons) and ammunition to fortify undersupplied posts along the West Coast …” wrote Bruce T. Torrence, in his book,