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  • Collection: The American Experience in World War II

The film "Action on the Homefront" was produced by Harold Chenoweth Films during World War II in Omaha, Nebraska. Like other films produced by Chenoweth, the film was shown in movie theaters.

MetadataGuideforDigitizationProjects-Omeka-Fall2016.pdf
Metadata guide for digital objects to be uploaded to Omeka by students in the course the American Experience in World War II.

THIS IS THE ENEMY-001.jpg
Forearm with a sleeve which holds a swastika emblem, this Nazi solider is using a large knife to stab the bible.

Strong in the strenght of.jpg
Three arms hold different forms of equipment: two of which is used to build war materials, while the other is a rifle used to fight the war.

Unclesamwantyou.jpg
Uncle Sam, half-length portrait, pointing at viewer as part of the United States government effort to recruit soldiers during World War I, with the famous legend "I want you for the U.S. Army".

guadalcanal.jpg
U.S. Army in final drive on Guadalcanal. American soldiers, clad in the briefest clothing because of intense heat, blast away at the few remaining enemy positions left on Guadalcanal in the Solomons during the final offensive which led to liberation…

Easy company in aircraft.png
Picture of Easy company "Screaming Eagles" before the drop on D-Day during Operation Overlord

JapaneseFireBalloon.jpg
Japanese fire balloon of mulberry paper reinflated at Moffett Field, CA after it had been shot down by a Navy aircraft January 10, 1945

US Army photo A 37180C.

Balloon now owned by the National Air and Space Museum.
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