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USO Performances 1942 - 1945 | Devoted USO Performers 1945
1945, Liberty Magazine, Recent Articles, The USO

They Gave Their All for the Troops
(Liberty Magazine, 1945)

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This is one of the more enjoyable reads on the site. Published during the Summer of 1945, with the war in Europe over and the Japanese capitulation only six weeks away, the Liberty editors saw fit to run an article that recalled the absolute devotion that so many USO performers displayed again and again in order to guarantee that American military personnel abroad was fully entertained and amused – no matter their proximity to the enemy.

USO Performances 1942 - 1945 | Devoted USO Performers 1945
1945, Liberty Magazine, Recent Articles, The USO

They Gave Their All for the Troops
(Liberty Magazine, 1945)

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This is one of the more enjoyable reads on the site. Published during the Summer of 1945, with the war in Europe over and the Japanese capitulation only six weeks away, the Liberty editors saw fit to run an article that recalled the absolute devotion that so many USO performers displayed again and again in order to guarantee that American military personnel abroad was fully entertained and amused – no matter their proximity to the enemy.

The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League Magazine Article 1938 | Dorthy Parker and the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League 1938
1938, Click Magazine, Hollywood, Recent Articles

The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League
(Click Magazine, 1938)

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The Los Angeles of the late Thirties was plagued by a small coterie of Nazis; they were not terribly visible, but they were around, nonetheless. From time-to-time real Fascists from Europe would blow into town and they would be met by such groups as the Jewish Labor Committee, the United Anti-Nazi Conference and the Los Angeles Jewish Community Relations Committee. This article concerns another organization that worked shoulder to shoulder with these groups, but with a little more style: the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League. The League was 5,000 strong (likely an exaggeration) and within its ranks were Hollywood notables such as Herbert Biberman, Robert Rossen, Francis Edward Faragoh, Ring Lardner, Jr. and Dalton Trumbo.

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General Benjamin Oliver Davis First Black General in the US Army | Who Was the First African-American General | Walter White Magazine Article 1944
1944, African-American Service, Coronet Magazine, Recent Articles

U.S. General Benjamin Oliver Davis
(Coronet Magazine, 1944)

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Civil Rights leader Walter White (1893 – 1955) recognized an historic moment when he saw one: during the summer of 1944 he wrote about the first African-American general – Benjamin O. Davis (1912 – 2002; West Point ’36):


“He had endured snubs because of his color and seen less able men promoted over his head without complaint. Some soldiers of his own race charge that he is not as militant as they think he should be in redressing their grievances. Non of this disturbs him.”

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An Eye-Full of Post-War Tokyo (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, Post-War Japan, World War Two, Yank Magazine

An Eye-Full of Post-War Tokyo

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An eyewitness account of the devastation delivered to Tokyo as reported by the first Americans to enter that city following the Japanese surrender some weeks earlier:

The people of Tokyo are taking the arrival of the first few Americans with impeccable Japanese calm. Sometimes they turn and look at us twice, but they have shown no emotion toward us except a mild curiosity and occasional amusement…They are still proud and a little bit superior. They know they lost the war, but they are not apologizing for it.


Click here to read about the humbled Japan.

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Japanese Regret for WW2 | 1945 Japanese Contrition | 1945 Japanese Humiliation and Regret
1945, Newsweek, Post-War Japan, Recent Articles

Eating Crow
(PM, & Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

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Four years after Pearl Harbor, the editors of the Japanese newspaper Asahi gazed out of the windows from their offices and saw the charred remains of their enemy-occupied homeland and recognized that they’d made a fatal mistake:

We once more refresh our horror at the colossal crime committed and are filled with a solemn sense of reflection and self-reproach…

Japanese Regret for WW2 | 1945 Japanese Contrition | 1945 Japanese Humiliation and Regret
1945, Newsweek, Post-War Japan, Recent Articles

Eating Crow
(PM, & Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

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Four years after Pearl Harbor, the editors of the Japanese newspaper Asahi gazed out of the windows from their offices and saw the charred remains of their enemy-occupied homeland and recognized that they’d made a fatal mistake:

We once more refresh our horror at the colossal crime committed and are filled with a solemn sense of reflection and self-reproach…

Alcoholics Anonymous 1939 | God and the Alcoholics by Morris Markey 1939
1939, Faith, Liberty Magazine, Recent Articles

‘God and Alcoholics”
(Liberty Magazine, 1939)

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Somebody said The Lord’s Prayer as the meeting broke up. I walked three blocks to the subway station. Just as I was about to go down the stairs – bang! – It happened! I don’t like the word miracle, but that’s all I can call it. The lights in the street seemed to flared up. My feet seemed to leave the pavement. A kind of shiver went over me and I burst into tears…I haven’t touched a drop in four years and I’ve sent four other fellows on the same road.

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French Soldiers Desperate to Leave the Trenches (The Atlanta Georgian, 1917)
1917, Recent Articles, The Atlanta Georgian, Trench Warfare

French Soldiers Desperate to Leave the Trenches
(The Atlanta Georgian, 1917)

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So horrid was the terror of World War I trench warfare that more than a few of the Frenchmen serving in those forward positions (and others who were simply overcome with life in the military) began to post personal ads in French newspapers, volunteering to marry widows and divorcees with large families in order to be absolved of all military duty.


Read what the U.S. Army psychologists had to say about courage.

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