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If You’re Captured… (Yank Magazine, 1943)

This cautionary article seems like a collaboration between Emily Post, the Twentieth Century’s High-Priestess of manners, and Sigmund Freud. It concerns one-part social instruction and one-part psychology. It offers wise words to the Yank readers as how best to behave when being interrogated by Axis goons; American mothers would have been proud to know that their tax dollars were well-spent advising their progeny to keep in mind manners, manners, manners and always anticipate the direction of the conversation:

It’s best to call your enemy questioner Sir or his rank, if you can figure out what it is. Then when you answer I’m sorry, sir to his questions, there isn’t much he can do about it…


Click here to read an article about the American POW experience during the Korean War.

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Distributing Women Throughout Industry (The American Magazine, 1942)

One of the seldom remembered branches of the War Production Board was the Women’s Labor Supply Services which served to eradicate the various draft deferments that were keeping too many men out of the military. Thelma McKelvey was the woman in charge of this body:

This captain of industry expects to see women workers in factories and farms increase from 700,000 today to 4,000,000 by mid-1943.

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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.


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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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Dogs for Defense (American Magazine, 1943)

Dogs for Defense was a World War II organization founded by three patriotic dog enthusiasts who established the group in order to procure patriotic canines (meeting certain height and weight standards) for the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, that branch of the services charged with the task of training the animals. Dogs for Defense was able to provide as many as four hundred dogs a week for the U.S. Army throughout both W.W. II as well as the Korean War.

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