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Among the films the studio made during the war were Casablanca, Now, Voyager, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( all 1942 ), This Is the Army, and Mission to Moscow ( both 1943 ), the latter became controversial a few years afterwards.

At the premieres of Yankee Doodle Dandy ( in Los Angeles, New York, and London ), audiences purchased $ 15. 6 million in war bonds for the governments of England and the United States.

By the middle of 1943, however, it became clear audiences were tired of war films.

Despite the growing pressure to abandon production of war films, Warner continued to produce them, losing money in the process.

Eventually, in honor of the studio's contributions to the war cause, the United States Government named a Liberty ship after the brothers ' father, Benjamin Warner, and Harry Warner was given the honor of christening the ship.

By the time the war ended, $ 20 million in war bonds were purchased through the studio, the Red Cross collected 5, 200 pints of plasma from studio employees, and 763 of the studio's employees served in the armed forces, including Harry Warner's son-in-law Milton Sperling and Jack's son Jack Warner Jr.