Project Summary
Yale University Library has extensive archival collections in many media. This page pulls together a sample of materials related to World War II including Yale Daily News coverage of the war at Yale, posters from many governments communicating war policies and programs from Manuscripts and Arcives and contemporary music from the Music Library's Historical Sound Recordings collection.

Yale Daily News
December 8, 1941
Reaction to the attack on Pearl Harbor 

February 13, 1943
Military programs, "total conversion to war" announced 

August 17, 1945
"Yale at war" comes to an end (Weekly digest editions were published during the war.)

Historical Sound Recordings
From the Historical Sound Recordings Collection in the Gilmore Music Library.

Blue Skies
Count Basie and His Orchestra
Columbia 37070 [HCO-1563] from 10" 78 rpm disc. (1946)

Whistle Blues
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
Capitol 374 [1612-2R-1] from 10" 78 rpm disc. (1947) 

Baltimore Oriole
Hoagy Carmichael & Orchestra
Ara 142 [Ara-1030-2A] from 10" 78 rpm disc. (1946?)