Page "Frank Capra" Paragraph 41

Within four days after the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Capra quit his highly successful directing career in Hollywood and enlisted as a major in the United States Army.

He also gave up his presidency of the Screen Directors Guild.

Being 44 years of age, he was not asked to enlist, but, notes Friedman, " Capra had an intense desire to prove his patriotism to his adopted land.