Don't You Know There's a War On? The American Home Front, 1941-1945 Review

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Don't You Know There's a War On The American Home Front, 1941-1945 ReviewI bought this book hoping to flesh out some of my knowledge of WWII with some more information about the war at home. I had high expectations of this book and was reading with great interest, until astonishingly obvious errors jumped out at me. Errors which indicated that the writer was either very sloppy in his fact checking, or relying on hearsay evidence, or just making things up as he went along.
Examples: He writes, "whether a pilot was flying B-17's in Europe, or B-19's in the South Pacific..." There was no B-19 bomber in WWII, the only one made was a prototype by Douglas Aviation, but none were ever used. I can't imagine such a glaring mistake, when all the aircraft of WWII were so well documented.
Another: "...many acts in New York's nightclubs were earning top dollar...Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis earned twice the salary for their act as before the war..." Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis didn't start working together until 1946, well after the end of WWII.
Another: "... Doolittle's Raiders struck back at Japan with a squadron of B-24's" Jimmy Doolittle flew B-25 bombers, which were medium bombers, two engines apiece, that were the largest aircraft to have ever taken off from an aircraft carrier. B-24's are huge 4 engine bombers, far too big to have taken off from an aircraft carrier. And the B-25 is universally known to WWII buffs as the plane that Doolittle flew. Anyone who lived thru WWII with any attention paid to the war would no sooner make this mistake than to say that it was President Nixon who ordered the atomic bomb dropped instead of President Truman.Don't You Know There's a War On The American Home Front, 1941-1945 OverviewThe tragic events of September 11, 2001 brought to the surface memories of an earlier time of unprecedented national emergency-Pearl Harbor-and America's subsequent involvement in World War II. In this evocative cultural history, Richard Lingeman re-creates the events-historic, humorous, and tragic-and personalities of the American home front. From V-girls and V-mail, blackouts and the internment of the Japanese, to new opportunities for African-Americans and women, Lingeman recaptures a unique time in American history in this New York Times Notable Book.

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