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WW2 April 1945 Before VE- Day | Soviet Army Links-Up with US Army at Elbe River April 1945
1945, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles, VE Day

VE- Day in Sight
(PM Tabloid, 1945)

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This report was filed shortly after the Soviet – U.S. link-up on the River Elbe and one week from the official Nazi surrender on May 8, 1945. The Red Army was in Berlin and the British and Americans were


“pressing relentlessly from all points of the compass on the Nazi Alpine redoubt. A second a third meeting between the Western and Easter Allies may have already taken place… To the south, General George S. Patton’s tank columns, sweeping across the Austrian frontier, were in field radio contact with the Soviets.”


Click here to read about the Soviet – U.S. link-up on the Elbe.

FDR During WW1 | FDR as Assistant Secretary of the US Navy Liberty Magazine 1942 | Josephus Daniels and FDR US Navy
1942, F.D.R., Liberty Magazine, Recent Articles

FDR in W.W. I
(Liberty Magazine, 1942)

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Between the years 1913 through 1920, FDR served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Josephus Daniels:


“Roosevelt had not been in office a month before he gave out a public statement urging a more adequate navy:”


“‘The navy is not fit for war. We have today only sixteen ships we can send effectively against the first line of the enemy.'”

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1945 Fire Bombing of Japan | 1945 Destruction of Japan
1945, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles, World War Two

”Terror in Japan”
(Collier’s Magazine, 1945)

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“On March 10, 1945, a group of Superforts crossed Japan’s coast line. Behind them came another group, and another in a line stretching far back toward Saipan. In a long, thin file they roared over Tokyo. They flew low and out of their open bellies spilled bombs of jellied gasoline. When they hit, they burst, spewing out billowing, all-consuming fire. The flames leaped across fire lanes, swallowed factories, destroyed skyscrapers.”


Click here to read about August 28, 1945 – the day the American occupation began.

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Kamikaze Assaults off of Okinawa 1945 |
1945, Kamikaze Attacks, Newsweek Magazine, Recent Articles

A New Kind of Fanaticism
(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

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“American troops on Okinawa thought they knew all there was to know about Jap fanaticism. But last week the Japs served it up with a new twist. The evening of May 24 started out like any other on the battle-torn island. The enemy sent its usual flight of Kamikaze suicide planes to strafe American airfields and dive into shipping offshore… At the height of the earsplitting air battle, the Japs played their trump card” – from the fuselage of a twin-engine bomber that had belly-landed on an American airfield, emerged Japanese infantry.

Detroit During WW2
1942, Home Front, Liberty Magazine, Recent Articles

The Importance of Detroit
(Liberty Magazine, 1942)

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Throughout a good deal of the Great Depression (1929 – 1940), FDR liked to think he was cozying-up to the voters when he insulted the great captains of industry with mean names like “selfish” and “stubborn”. All that ended when the war started, and the President had to make common cause with these men in order gain their cooperation in meeting the military needs of the nation. This article concerns the importance of the industrial might of Detroit.

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Rene Viviani Response to Kaiser Wilhelm's War Memoir 1923 | My Memoir by Kaiser Wilhelm Brings Outrage 1923
1923, Recent Articles, Time Magazine, Writing

A French Response to the Kaiser Memoir
(Time Magazine, 1923)

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Kaiser Wilhelm’s recollections of his part in the First World War (reviewed above) was released in the Winter of 1922. Former French president Rene Viviani (1863 – 1925; leadership, 13 June 1914 – 29 October 1915) quickly responded with his own book that appeared the following spring – it was titled As We See It:


“M. Viviani’s book is a direct answer to that puerile and invidious work known as the ex-Kaiser’s War Memoirs. It is impossible to escape from the logic of Viviani’s scathing denunciation of the ex-Kaiser’s tacit inculpation in the events which preceded the world-wide cataclysm.”

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Major General Lewis E Brereton and the Raid on Ploesti 1943 |
1943, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles, World War Two

The Success of the Ploesti Raid
(Collier’s Magazine, 1943)

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Here is an article from 1943, the year everything changed for the Axis. The article explains all that was involved with the stout-hearted raid on the Ploesti oil fields in Rumania. 177 American bombers were sent to do the job.


“From Ploesti, the Nazis extracted oil and oil products which maintained the entire German and Italian fleets, and third of the whole German air force in Russia. Around the Ploesti installations, the Germans had raised a forest of antiaircraft guns of large and small calibers. They had built blast walls around plants’ vital parts and spotted airdromes from which fighters could rise to intercept our bombers.”

Allied Bombing Campaign Over Nazi Germany 1944
1944, Newsweek Magazine, Recent Articles, World War Two

”Eighth Over Berlin”
(Newsweek Magazine, 1944)

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“Comparing the American [daylight] raids with the RAF [nighttime] incursions, it was certainly a great shock to Berliners to find their city now open to round-the-clock bombing.”


“We don’t mind the Yanks who come when the sun shines and it’s warm. It’s the Tommies sneaking in at night that we don’t like so much.”


Click here to read about the harried everyday life on a U.S. bomber base in England…

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WW2 Child Labor Article | Child Labor 1942 - 1943
1943, Child Labor, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles

Child Labor During W.W. II
(Collier’s Magazine, 1943)

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“Throughout the land, child labor is making a comeback as already inadequate laws buckle under pressure of fraudulent appeals to patriotism. Here is what greed and indifference are doing to America’s greatest asset: its children:”


“[The Devious] prefer children – the child worker is cheaper, more agile and willing, has less bargaining power. So the cry goes out for more and more children, ‘to help win the war!'”


“Just how it helps win the war for an Alabama girl of 11 to work in the fields till she collapses and is taken to a hospital with heart trouble has not been made clear.”

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