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"You've Got To Cross The Atlantic To Get To The Pacific," released by the War Department Music Branch, No. 515A, 1945.
Credit: National Archives and Marr Sound Archives -Special Collections. Miller Nichols Library - University of Missouri - Kansas City.
During World War II, Les Brown, the Andrews Sisters, and other popular musicians recorded songs for the Music Branch of the Army Service Forces. On this V-Disc released soon after VE Day, Doris Day sang a love song for the GI who had to cross the Pacific "before he comes home to me."