Coronet Magazine – Page 4 – Old Magazine Articles

Admiral Mitscher, U.S.N.
(Coronet Magazine, 1945)

Admiral Pete Mitscher was one of the primary architects of American naval aviation during the 20th Century.In this column, one of the officers who served under him during the admiral’s command of carrier Task Force 58 recalls why he came to admire the man as deeply as he did.
One of Admiral Pete Mitscher’s officers recalls the man with tremendous admiration:

They used to think a carrier was a hit-and-run fighter, but Pete changed that. He said, ‘Hit’em and stay. Hit’em again tomorrow. And he did.’

Click here to read about Admiral Nimitz…

The Bizarre End of the USS TANG
(Coronet Magazine, 1960)

During World War II, the officers and men of the U.S. Navy’s submarine Tang had a proud boast. Their submarine, they crowed, rarely wasted a torpedo. In less than a year of combat, the Tang mowed down Japanese transports, freighters and tankers with deadly accuracy. But it was her fifth patrol from September 27 to October 24, 1944, that gives a unique place in the annals of submarine warfare.

You see, the Tang was sunk by her own torpedo.

The German Resistance
(Coronet Magazine, 1941)

The Free German Movement is vigorously gnawing away at the very roots of Naziism with teeth filed to needle sharpness. Our organizations are fighting Hitler, at home or in South America with his own weapons. We have consolidated earlier gains against Hitler with important new gains.

So wrote Dr. Otto Strasser (1897 – 1974) who oversaw the Free German Movement, the Black Front and other Nazi resistance organizations. He must have been pretty effective, the Nazis put a half-million dollar price on his head.

Flappers Altered the Sexual Contract in Society
(Coronet Magazine, 1955)

Perhaps the above headline gives a wee-bit too much credit to the flappers for changing the sex codes of North America – but it certainly would never have happened without them. They were one of the necessary elements, in addition to motion pictures, recorded music, automobiles and greater job opportunities for women, that, when mixed together created a new social contract. The attached article spells it all out as to how the flappers of the 1920s had stripped the female body of its Victorian wrappings and proudly displayed it in the sunlight.

You might also want read about sex during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Margaret Bourke-White
(Coronet Magazine, 1939)

This is a profile of the American photographer Margaret Bourke-White (1904 – 1971). At the time these pages appeared on the newsstand, the photographer’s stock was truly on the rise as a result of her remarkable documentary images depicting the Great Depression as it played out across the land.

The Most Dreaded Telegram on the Home Front
(Coronet Magazine, 1944)

By the time this historic piece was written, thousands upon thousands of Western Union casualty telegrams had been delivered to altogether too many American households. This article lucidly explains how they should be delivered and how they shouldn’t be delivered. Recognizing the solemnity of the task, the men who passed the news along were often older men, who had tasted some of life’s bitterness:

One mother, receiving the news that her son was dead, crushed the paper in her hand and looking beyond the messenger, said, ‘If it hadn’t been my son, it would have been some other mother’s’.

John Thompson of the Chicago Tribune
(Coronet Magazine, 1944)

John Thompson of The Chicago Tribune saw more of the World War II than most other correspondents. He had witnessed to the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Paris and the horrors of the Buchenwald death camp. Throughout his life, Thompson held the distinction of being the last surviving war correspondent to land on Omaha Beach during the D-Day landings; by war’s end he had been awarded the Purple Heart, nine battle stars and was the first correspondent to receive the Medal of Freedom. This column was written in 1943 and pertains to some of his experiences in North Africa and Sicily.

John Thompson of the Chicago Tribune
(Coronet Magazine, 1944)

Richard Tregaskis of the International News Service
(Coronet, 1944)

Richard Tregaskis (1916 – 1973) covered the invasion of Guadalcanal and the first seven weeks of Marine fighting on that island, the earliest stages of the Tokyo air raid, covered the Battle of Midway, wrote a best-selling book
(Guadalcanal Diary) and accompanied the forces that invaded the Russell Islands.

It wasn’t long after he arrived in the Mediterrian that stories began appearing in American papers under the Tregaskis byline, and he is still ‘somewhere’ on the European fighting front covering the big battles which make news.

Anticipating A Robert Kennedy Presidency
(Coronet Magazine, 1968)

Three months prior to the assassination of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, the editors of CORONET MAGAZINE posed the question: ‘Will Bobby make a great President?’ Or even a good one? What would his policies be? The numerous assorted answers were all enthusiastically positive – the one that stood out came from the perennial contrarian of the time:

‘The inevitability of Bobby’ comes just after that of death and taxes, say Conservative quipster William F. Buckley, only half in fun.