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When Japan Went on the Defensive (Click Magazine, 1943)

Japan’s one purpose now is to fight back and stall for more time – not to attack. That period in her war is over, and she came out on top…All signs now point to a growing major Allied offensive, and for the first time the enemy will be faced with the problem of holding territory which he can’t afford to lose.


1943 was truly the year that proved to have been the turning point in the war, click here to read about it…

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Who are the U.S.Marines? (Click Magazine, 1943)

A nice piece of P.R. for the W.W. II Gyrenes:

Since the policy limits Marine Corps personel to 20 percent of the navy, no Marine can specialize as do other service men. He must be a crack rifle and pistol shot, a saboteur, a scout familiar with jungle and city alike. He must run, walk, swim, sail, shoot, and maim better than the men he’s fighting… He glories in this responsibility, as in his corp’s 167-year-old reputation as nonpareil shock troops. He’s never yeilded either that responsibility or reputation to his jealous friends in rough-and-ready Army and Navy units. They resent the Marine. He knows it and doesn’t give a damn, cocky in the knowledge that he’s relied on to pave the way for the Army’s operations and to finish up the Navy’s.


This is a six page photo-essay that is comprised of seventeen images (two in color) of the San Diego Marines, who are identified as the dirtiest and cockiest fighters in the nation’s arsenal.


Click here to read another article about the Marines.

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Who are the U.S.Marines? (Click Magazine, 1943)

A nice piece of P.R. for the W.W. II Gyrenes:

Since the policy limits Marine Corps personel to 20 percent of the navy, no Marine can specialize as do other service men. He must be a crack rifle and pistol shot, a saboteur, a scout familiar with jungle and city alike. He must run, walk, swim, sail, shoot, and maim better than the men he’s fighting… He glories in this responsibility, as in his corp’s 167-year-old reputation as nonpareil shock troops. He’s never yeilded either that responsibility or reputation to his jealous friends in rough-and-ready Army and Navy units. They resent the Marine. He knows it and doesn’t give a damn, cocky in the knowledge that he’s relied on to pave the way for the Army’s operations and to finish up the Navy’s.


This is a six page photo-essay that is comprised of seventeen images (two in color) of the San Diego Marines, who are identified as the dirtiest and cockiest fighters in the nation’s arsenal.


Click here to read another article about the Marines.

Who are the U.S.Marines? (Click Magazine, 1943) Read More »

Who are the U.S.Marines? (Click Magazine, 1943)

A nice piece of P.R. for the W.W. II Gyrenes:

Since the policy limits Marine Corps personel to 20 percent of the navy, no Marine can specialize as do other service men. He must be a crack rifle and pistol shot, a saboteur, a scout familiar with jungle and city alike. He must run, walk, swim, sail, shoot, and maim better than the men he’s fighting… He glories in this responsibility, as in his corp’s 167-year-old reputation as nonpareil shock troops. He’s never yeilded either that responsibility or reputation to his jealous friends in rough-and-ready Army and Navy units. They resent the Marine. He knows it and doesn’t give a damn, cocky in the knowledge that he’s relied on to pave the way for the Army’s operations and to finish up the Navy’s.


This is a six page photo-essay that is comprised of seventeen images (two in color) of the San Diego Marines, who are identified as the dirtiest and cockiest fighters in the nation’s arsenal.


Click here to read another article about the Marines.

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The D-Day Landing Crafts (Click Magazine, 1942)

If you ever wondered why The National W.W. II Museum is located in New Orleans rather than West Point, Annapolis or the nation’s capitol – the answer can be spoken in two words: Andrew Higgins. Higgins was the innovator who designed and manufactured the landing crafts that made it possible for the Allied forces to land on all those far-flung beaches throughout the world and show those Fascists dogs a thing or two. His factory, Higgins Industries, was located on Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans and it was for this reason that the museum board of directors chose to doff their collective caps, and erect their repository in his home town.


Attached is a five page photo-essay about Higgins and all that he was doing to aid in the war effort.

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The Mettle of Americans (Click Magazine, 1944)

Following his tour of the war fronts, U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902 – 1985) put pen to paper in an attempt to express his admiration for the brave and selfless acts that Americans were performing all over the globe:

If asked to say what impressed me on my recent trip to the war theater, my answer would be: the heroic qualities displayed by our American boys. My most lasting impressions were gained in the field and in the hospitals around the globe. It is there that one sees the kind of boy America produces.


Additional praise for the American fighting man can be read here…

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Guys & WAACs (Click Magazine, 1943)

Fort Warren, Wyoming, is bleak, windswept, desolate. It is no wonder that the soldiers stationed there looked forward to the arrival at the lonely post of a unit of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). [When the women arrived] The men of Company H, Fifth Quartermaster Training Regiment, sent over an invitation to a party… The party was informal but military. The hosts marched in formation to their guests’ barracks where the two companies fell in behind their respective officers for the return trip. The evening included a buffet supper, attendance at boxing matches and refreshments afterwards.

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Beauty in the Congo (Click Magazine, 1938)

Fashions these days are simply fraught with Third World influences such as tattoos and piercings and there is no reason to suspect that fashion’s dictators might one day soon decide that the elegant life is best lived with a cone-shaped head. The attached fashion article is illustrated with three pictures of the mode-conscious Manbetu tribe of Northeaster Africa who live life large as the African Longheads.

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WHAT IF – Hitler Had Been Killed? (Click Magazine, 1941)

It must have been a slow news week when the CLICK MAGAZINE crew approached three of the busiest editors in the the U.S. and Britain asking them how they would break the news if Hitler were to be killed tomorrow?

Every editor we queried agreed that when it happens, the death of Adolf Hitler will sell more papers than any other news event of the Twentieth century…All agreed that Hitler’s death would not end the war; two out of three guessed he would die violently.

The leftest publisher Ralph Ingersoll knew right away that Hitler would die by his own hand.


The article is illustrated with facsimile printings of the headlines and how each paper believed the dictator would die – it was an academic exercise, but a fun read, nonetheless.

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