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- ↑ "A Fellow on a Furlough". Pritzker Military Museum & Library. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
- ↑ Holloway, Diane, and Bob Cheney. American History in Song: Lyrics from 1900 to 1945. San Jose: Authors Choice Press, 2001, P. 401, ISBN 9780595193318 OCLC 49622031
Bibliography
- Holloway, Diane, and Bob Cheney. American History in Song: Lyrics from 1900 to 1945. San Jose: Authors Choice Press, 2001. ISBN 9780595193318 OCLC 49622031
- Smith, Kathleen E. R. God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. Print. ISBN 0-8131-2256-2 OCLC 50868277