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    • Aug 25, 1939
    Amid signs that Europe is about to break out in a major war, Republic Pictures wires Gene Autry to return immediately to the U.S. The cowboy will, in fact, remain in England; he's in Liverpool when Germany invades Poland one week later
    Dec 4, 1940
    Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy and Tex Ritter are among a number of Hollywood cowboys who team up for a live radio broadcast to raise money for British children victimized by Nazi bombing raids
    Nov 2, 1941
    The Selective Service drafts Kenneth Charles Burns--Jethro, of Homer & Jethro--for the Army during World War II
    Dec 7, 1941
    The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Tennessee Ernie Ford, working as a disc jockey at WORL, is the first person to inform Knoxville of the tragedy
    Dec 8, 1941
    The day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tommy Duncan announces he's leaving Bob Wills' Texas Playboys to join the war
    Dec 10, 1941
    Fighter pilot Colin Kelly is killed in a Japanese air attack over the Pacific. One of the first American heroes of World War II, he's remembered the following year in the lyrics of Elton Britt's hit "There's A Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere"
    Mar 19, 1942
    Elton Britt records "There's A Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere" in New York. With references to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Nathan Hale, George Custer and Colin Kelly, it becomes the first country single to receive a gold record
    Apr 29, 1942
    Gene Autry is ordered by the Army to report for a physical examination. He passes, making him eligible for the draft
    Jun 23, 1942
    Jimmy Wakely records "There's A Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere" at the Decca Recording Studio in Los Angeles with a band that includes fiddler Spade Cooley and guitarist Johnny Bond
    Jul 5, 1942
    While in Chicago, Gene Autry signs up for duty with the U.S. Army



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