Mrs. Gunn's Diary: Feb. 18, 1942

'Everything is war,' she writes; battleship USS Alabama is launched

Mrs. Gunn had another day of dashing here and there, from a play rehearsal at the Chevy Chase Woman’s Club to a meeting of her neighborhood book club. However, she and husband Ross squeezed in a date that night, seeing “the battle picture at the Trans-Lux.”

“Everything is war,” she wrote. “It surely would seem with the launching of a ship every day we could catch up with the Axis.”

Paid subscribers can read on about the “battle picture” they saw and the launching of the USS Alabama.

The ad for the Trans-Lux theatre was clipped from the Feb. 18, 1942 Washington Evening Star via newspapers.com.