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WW2 Ground Crews Wait for the Bombers to Return to Base 1943
1943, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles, World War Two

Life on a B-17 Base in England
(Collier’s Magazine, 1943)

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This is an amazing article that recalls the open-all-night cities that were the B-17 bases in Britain during World War Two. Such were the lives of the ground crews, who worked all night and then found sleep impossible – preferring to stay-up and stare at the skies in anticipation for their returning bombers.


“A crew chief stumbles past you on his way to the hangar. He’s been going seventy-two hours without taking his shoes off; his face is unshaven, and his eyes look like holes burned in a blanket.”

WW2 Ground Crews Wait for the Bombers to Return to Base 1943
1943, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles, World War Two

Life on a B-17 Base in England
(Collier’s Magazine, 1943)

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This is an amazing article that recalls the open-all-night cities that were the B-17 bases in Britain during World War Two. Such were the lives of the ground crews, who worked all night and then found sleep impossible – preferring to stay-up and stare at the skies in anticipation for their returning bombers.


“A crew chief stumbles past you on his way to the hangar. He’s been going seventy-two hours without taking his shoes off; his face is unshaven, and his eyes look like holes burned in a blanket.”

Soldier's Opinions About the US Home Front 1943 | The Lucky US Home Front 1943
1943, Collier's Magazine, Home Front, Recent Articles

Soldiers Speak-Out About the Home Front
(Collier’s Magazine, 1943)

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“There is no other country at war with such an enormous gulf in sacrifice between fighting men and civilians. There is no other country where the men at the front have given up everything, while the people at home have given up practically nothing. And the soldiers know it…‘A few bombs would do this country a lot of good.’ I heard that in San Francisco from a curly-headed sailor who had been sunk in the Pacific, and I heard it again in Washington from a corporal who had left his leg on Hill 609. Both added, rather anxiously, that, of course, they wouldn’t want anyone to get hurt.”

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Red Army Takes Berlin 1945 | Combat Correspondent Ken Clark Report from Berlin 1945
1945, Eastern Front, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

Game, Set, Match
(PM Tabloid, 1945)

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“The Red Army has Berlin. The once fat, strong heart of German power, now a wreck, was taken in 12 days of [the] bloodiest battle by the overwhelming might of Marshals Zhukov and Konev. The surrender of the remnants of the Nazis in the ruins of the Chancellery where Hitler is said to have his end, and the smashed-up Tiergarten turned a page in history>”

Sinai and Palestine Campaign of General Allenby 1915-1918 | Sinai and Palestine Campaign WW1
1936, Liberty Magazine, Recent Articles, World War One

Sinai And Palestine: Allenby’s Victory
(Liberty Magazine, 1936)

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Attached are two articles by American journalist Lowell Thomas (1892 – 1981) regarding all that he witnessed while reporting on General Edmund Allenby’s campaign against Johnny Turk in the Sinai and Palestine Theater during the First World War. This reminiscence was written many years after the war in an effort to make up for the fact that “after eighteen years, no clear-cut account of Allenby’s campaign has been set down.”


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Sinai and Palestine Campaign of General Allenby 1915-1918 | Sinai and Palestine Campaign WW1
1936, Liberty Magazine, Recent Articles, World War One

Sinai And Palestine: Allenby’s Victory
(Liberty Magazine, 1936)

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Attached are two articles by American journalist Lowell Thomas (1892 – 1981) regarding all that he witnessed while reporting on General Edmund Allenby’s campaign against Johnny Turk in the Sinai and Palestine Theater during the First World War. This reminiscence was written many years after the war in an effort to make up for the fact that “after eighteen years, no clear-cut account of Allenby’s campaign has been set down.”


Click here to read about Lawrence of Arabia…

Understanding Overeating | Sticking to Diets
1958, Coronet Magazine, Diets of Yore, Recent Articles

DIETS – and Sticking to’em
(Coronet Magazine, 1958)

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Here is an article by a doctor who believed that a modicum of self-knowledge is required before embarking on a diet. It is important to understand why the aspiring dieter overeats in the first place and understands what kind of diet they will be likely to complete successfully:


“Nobody can live on a few shreds of lettuce, a grated carrot and two ounces of boiled asparagus a day, and nobody has to resort to such rigorous tactics.”

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Cardinal von Faulhaber Apologizes for WW1 | Cardinal von Faulhaber Apologized On Behalf of WW1 Germany 1923
1923, Aftermath (WWI), Recent Articles, Time Magazine

”OOOPS – Sorry”
(Time Magazine, 1923)

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Try as they may, the silver-tongued diplomats who rebuked Germany so mercilessly at Versailles in 1919 never could get an apology out of the Kaiser, or Hindenburg or Ludendorff. They just had to sit tight and wait – because in 1923 Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber (1869 – 1952), [alas] speaking in an unofficial capacity as a German, apologized for the whole monkey show: Lusitania, Belgium, etc. Everything comes to those who wait.

Vice on the WW2 Home Front 1941 | WW2 Prostitution in the USA
1941, Collier's Magazine, Home Front, Recent Articles

Debauchery Near the Army Camps
(Collier’s Magazine, 1941)

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Even before the Home Front kicked into high-gear, the men who had been picked up in the 1940 draft were causing real problems in every area where a military training camp could be found. Knowing that the enlistments were soon to grow and these problems would be getting worse, the brass hats joined arms with the town elders to curb the drinking and whoremongering. The cure for these difficulties came in the form of the USO, which would be eatablished before the year was out.


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1945, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles, World War Two

The Japanese Planned to Fight Until the End
(PM Tabloid, 1945)

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The American magazines and newspapers of late April and early May, 1945, were all about the end of the German Army and now its time to clobber the Japanese. The attached article, from May 6, addressed the subject that this would not be an easy task. If the Atom Bomb hadn’t come along, the Pentagon believed the war would have gone on for another two or three years, and the Japanese were determined to fight until the end:


“The influential Tokyo paper Sangyo Kezei said editorially on April 30: ‘Japan will fight on regardless of any sudden changes in Europe.'”


A similar article can be read here.

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1945, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles, World War Two

The Japanese Planned to Fight Until the End
(PM Tabloid, 1945)

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The American magazines and newspapers of late April and early May, 1945, were all about the end of the German Army and now its time to clobber the Japanese. The attached article, from May 6, addressed the subject that this would not be an easy task. If the Atom Bomb hadn’t come along, the Pentagon believed the war would have gone on for another two or three years, and the Japanese were determined to fight until the end:


“The influential Tokyo paper Sangyo Kezei said editorially on April 30: ‘Japan will fight on regardless of any sudden changes in Europe.'”


A similar article can be read here.

1945, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles, World War Two

The Japanese Planned to Fight Until the End
(PM Tabloid, 1945)

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The American magazines and newspapers of late April and early May, 1945, were all about the end of the German Army and now its time to clobber the Japanese. The attached article, from May 6, addressed the subject that this would not be an easy task. If the Atom Bomb hadn’t come along, the Pentagon believed the war would have gone on for another two or three years, and the Japanese were determined to fight until the end:


“The influential Tokyo paper Sangyo Kezei said editorially on April 30: ‘Japan will fight on regardless of any sudden changes in Europe.'”


A similar article can be read here.

1945, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles, World War Two

The Japanese Planned to Fight Until the End
(PM Tabloid, 1945)

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The American magazines and newspapers of late April and early May, 1945, were all about the end of the German Army and now its time to clobber the Japanese. The attached article, from May 6, addressed the subject that this would not be an easy task. If the Atom Bomb hadn’t come along, the Pentagon believed the war would have gone on for another two or three years, and the Japanese were determined to fight until the end:


“The influential Tokyo paper Sangyo Kezei said editorially on April 30: ‘Japan will fight on regardless of any sudden changes in Europe.'”


A similar article can be read here.

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