This playlist includes commercially released versions of songs popular with American G.I.s in World War II, including a series of albums Oscar Brand put out in the late 1950s and early 1960s of songs sung in the different branches of the military. Except for a few at the end, they are expurgated.

From the 2007 film Atonement, here is an unexpurgated version of the song generally known to soldiers as “Fuck ’Em All” which also circulated, especially among civilians, as “Bless ’Em All”:

This is Bing Crosby singing the cleaned-up version, in 1944:

An unexpurgated version of “I Wanted Wings,” a song extremely popular with airmen, recorded by a soldier during or shortly after the war:

This is a V-Disc recording of the “Duckworth Chant” (i.e., “Sound off!/One, two” and so on) which was circulated among military bases in 1945 and quickly became popular among trainees. After folklorist Alan Lomax heard it at Camp Crowder in Missouri, he wrote, “They played [this record] over the loudspeaker system here the other day and the boys have been humming it ever since.” The recording begins with an account (probably heavily modified if not apocryphal) of the chant’s origin: