When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

Davis met his wife Florence in England. Then in 1941 his colleagues persuaded President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to appoint Davis director of the newly created United States Office of War Information a sprawling organization with over 3000 employees. Davis has been termed one of the "unsung forefathers" of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team an all-Nisei combat unit in the war.

Elmer Davis (January 13 1890 – May 18 1958) was a well-known news reporter author the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II and a Peabody Award recipient.