my earliest memories of life are are war. world war ii. the greatest war in the history of mankind. i lived on an army base where my neighbors were going to war or coming home from war. these were defining times for a generation. for a nation. and for the world. to defeat the nazis and japan. america pulled in a national effort. this is frank sinatra. recordings produced to the troops were a sound track of those times. blue skies blue skies above the dark clouds of war. nothing but blue skies do i see by d-day, 12 million