World War Two

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A Report on the War Reporters
(Click Magazine, 1944)

A well-illustrated 1944 article by Leonard Lyons pertaining to the assorted wartime experiences of ten American war correspondents:


• Martin Agronsky for NBC News

• Vincent Sheean with The N.Y. Tribune

• Henry Cassidy of the Associated Press

• Bob Casey of the Chicago Tribune

• John Gunther of The Chicago Daily News

• Jack Thompson of The Chicago Tribune

• Cecil Brown of CBS News

• W.L. White of the Associated Press

• Quentin Reynolds of Collier’s Magazine

• Cyrus Schulzberger with the NY Times

More Reports on the War Reporters
(Pic Magazine, 1944)

Published four months after the above article, here is a similar, well-illustrated piece that lists the names of the photographers and reporters who were killed – and the younger breed of writers and lens-men who took their places.

The Redhead, The Blonde and the Brunette
(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

This brief column tells the story of three women war correspondents who marched at the point of the spear alongside the American infantry in order to report on the collapse of Hitler’s Germany. The correspondents in question were:


• Lee Carson in Remagen

• Iris Carpenter in Remagen

• Ann Stringer in the city of Bonn

Women In The War Effort
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

Eight months into America’s entry into the war came this article from PM reporting the War Manpower Commission and their data as to how many American women up to that point had stepped up to contribute their labor to the war effort (over 1,500,000):

Women have been found to excel men in jobs requiring repetitive skill, finger dexterity and accuracy. They’re the equals of men in a number of other jobs. A U.S. Employment Service has indicated women can do 80 percent of the jobs now done by men.

Sex During the Second World War
(Coronet Magazine, 1955)

At the beginning of World War II, our army was a mixture of callow boys and and domesticated men. The older men were homesick for wives and children…There were plenty of lonely wives, too, and it soon became evident that a fair number of them were committed to the belief that continence was bad for women.


Marriage vows were one of the unsung casualties of the Second World War: by 1944 many married women who hadn’t seen their drafted husbands in years began producing babies; you can read about that here…


In 1943 a woman on the home front introduced a sexual component that she believed would bring an end to the problem of industrial absenteeism – click here to read about her idea…

The Work Starts
(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

As the American occupation forces began to pour in and spread throughout the cities and countryside of Japan, both occupied and occupier slowly get to learn of the other. The cordial attitude of the Japanese leads General MacArthur to conclude that the military presence need not be as large as he had once believed:

Curious and awed, increasingly friendly Japanese flocked to watch what they called the ‘race of giants’ at work.

Japanese Feudalism Overturned
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1945)

The reforms that were imposed upon Occupied Japan in the Forties and Fifties did not simply come in the form of death sentences for war criminals – but additionally the Japanese came to know the rights and protections that are guaranteed to All Americans under the United States Constitution. For the first time ever Japanese women were permitted to vote, unions were legalized and equality under the law was mandated. This small notice concerned the overthrow of the feudal laws that governed the Japanese tenant farmers.

WACs at Christmas
(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

By the time the war ended the WACs were 100,000 strong –
they had earned 314 medals and commendations, including 23 Legion of Merit awards and fourteen Purple Hearts. Throughout the war, seventeen thousand WACs had served overseas but by Christmas of 1945 their global strength had been cut in half.

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