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Prologue: Pearl Harbor -- "The only way I could survive": Hollywood, March 1938-April 1939 -- "The dictates of my heart and blood": Hollywood and Washington, April 1939-May 1940 -- "You must not realize that there is a war going on": Hollywood, June-September 1940 -- "What's the good of a message?": Hollywood, early 1941 -- "The most dangerous fifth column in our country": Hollywood and Washington, July-December 1941 -- "Do I have to wait for orders?": Hollywood, Washington, and Hawaii, December 1941-April 1942 -- "I've only got one German": Hollywood, December 1941-April 1942 -- "It's going to be a problem and a battle": Washington, March-June 1942 -- "All I know is that I'm not courageous": Midway and Washington, June-August 1942 -- "Can you use me?" Washington and Hollywood, August-September 1942 -- "A good partner to have in times of trouble": England, North Africa, and Hollywood, September 1942-January 1943 -- "You might as well run into it as away from it": The Aleution islands, Hollywood, Washington, and North Africa, September, 1942-May 1943 -- "Just enough to make it seem less than real": England, Hollywood, and Washington, January-May 1943 -- "Coming along with us just for pictures?": Washington, England, and New York, March-July 1943 -- "How to live in the army": North Africa, Hollywood, Florida, and Washington, Summer 1943 -- "I'm the wrong man for that stuff": Washington, Hollywood and England, June-December 1943 -- "I have to do a good job": England and Italy, October 1943-January 1944 -- "We really don't know what goes on beneath the surface": Washington, The China-Burma-India theater, Italy and New York, September 1943-March 1944 -- "If you believe this, we thank you": Hollywood and England, March-May 1944 -- "A sporadic raid of sorts on the continent": Hollywood, Washington, and New York, March-May 1944 -- "If you see it, shoot it": France, June-July 1944 -- "If Hitler can hold out, so can I": Hollywood and Washington, July-December 1944 -- "Time and us marches on": France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and England, July 1944-January 1945 -- "Who you working for--yourself?": Hollywood, Florida, Italy, and New York, February-May 1945 -- "Where I learned about life": Germany, March-August 1945 -- "What's this picture for?": Washington and Hollywood, summer 1945 -- "An angry past commingled with the future in a storm": Hollywood, New York, and Germany, 1945 -- "A straight face and a painfully maturing mind": Hollywood, New York and Washington, December 1945-March 1946 -- "Closer to what is going on in the world": Hollywood, May 1946-February 1947. |