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Episode 15. I Want My Daddy Back. The subject of this program is the demobilization of the armed forces after World War II. Unfortunately, the Decision series is copyright Sony Pictures Entertainment, and the Truman Library may not reproduce any episodes without their consent.
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Shot List
- Reel 1
| 0:00 | 0 Introduction - Truman vs. "Mothers of America" - May-September 1945. | |
| 0:55 | Harry S. Truman - comments - why soldiers could not go home. | |
| 1:54 | Truman - says General Douglas MacArthur needed troops. | |
| 2:12 | Credits. | |
| 2:50 | Truman comments - 3 million U. S. troops in Europe. | |
| 3:18 | General George Patton speaks - Germany looks like "hell". | |
| 3:50 | German prisoners. | |
| 4:00 | Victory in Europe Day celebrated (May 8, 1945). | |
| 4:18 | Truman comments - scenes of his experience in World War II. | |
| 4:50 | Home scenes and letters. | |
| 5:45 | Truman comments - Boys said, "I want to go home!" This created pressure for him in office. Scenes of conflict in Europe. | |
| 6:40 | Mail call for U. S. troops; Lounging. | |
| 7:05 | War in Pacific continues. | |
| 7:15 | American women buying nylons. | |
| 7:40 | U.S. Troops fraternizing with women in Europe. | |
| 8: 40 | Bob Hope cutting up. Bathing beaches. | |
| 9:30 | Maneuvers - troops in mud - troops waiting. | |
| 10:18 | Truman notes point system for sending groups home. Didn't work too well. | |
| 10:50 | Paratroopers; General Dwight D. Eisenhower inspects. | |
| 11:45 | Truman notes troops doubled up on ships to go home. | |
| 12:16 | General Omar Bradley speaks on pressure to demobilize troops on ship. | |
| 12:57 | General Bradley describes demobilization. | |
| 13:07 | Truman comments that demobilization was "disintegration." | |
| 13:20 | Air Force men going home. | |
| 13:50 | Truman comments - Main Street and work places in U.S. | |
| 14:17 | Russian troops - Joseph Stalin. | |
| 14:25 | Truman comments that Churchill wanted slow demobilization - notes de Gaulle incident about Stuttgart, Germany. Josip Broz Tito trying to occupy Trieste. | |
| 15:20 | Troops and weapons. | |
| 15:30 | Folks at home. | |
| 15:50 | Truman comments - parents influenced Congress. Congress put heat on President. | |
| 16:20 | Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks. We are "tearing down our Army." | |
| 16:44 | Congress decides to bring boys home. | |
| 17:00 | President Truman speaks to Congress on Universal Military Training and "pay price for peace." (segment of speech). | |
| 17:40 | Troop ship - homecomings - parades. | |
| 19:14 | Truman comments - notes. | |
| 19:30 | More homecomings - Troops on trains going to Pacific. | |
| 20:00 | Troops home to family and jobs - Pilots demonstrate - no jobs. | |
| 21:05 | Treasury Secretary John Snyder speaks - "We want a stable economy .." Economy in state of flux". | |
| 21:35 | No cars - apartments. | |
| 22:00 | Truman comments - "ticklish situation". | |
| 22:10 | Quonset huts. | |
| 22:45 | More homecomings - emergency housing. | |
| 23:30 | Junking war material - civilian productivity; Truman was determined country would not have depression. |