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German Letters from Stalingrad (Coronet Magazine, 1943)
1943, Coronet Magazine, Eastern Front

German Letters from Stalingrad
(Coronet Magazine, 1943)

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When 22 divisions were cut off by the Russians at the gates of Stalingrad, the Nazis had to rely on air transport for contact with the surrounded troops. One mid-December day a German cargo plane was shot down on its way from the ringed divisions. The wreckage yielded some three hundred letters from doomed soldier of der Fuehrer. The Soviets selected and published a typical one:

It is hard to confess even to myself, but it seems to me that at Stalingrad we shall soon win ourselves to death.


Click here to read an assessment of the late-war German soldier…

French Slaves in Germany 1942
1942, France, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

French Slavery Becomes A Reality
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

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Petain clamped the chains of Nazi slavery on the men and women of France today. The aged Marshal, Pierre Laval, and their quisling cabinet, promulgated a decree ordering all French men and women to compulsory labor. The decree, which the Government frankly admitted meant slavery in Germany for thousands of Frenchmen, was signed by Petain on Friday night.


Click here to read about the enslavement of Europe…

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Battle of Rostov 1942 | USSR vs Germans Rostov 1942
1942, Eastern Front, PM Tabloid

Red Drive Toward Rostov
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

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The Red Army crossed the Don River at three points and advanced spearheads upwards of ten miles to the south of the Stalingrad Axis seige army, threatening it with more strict encirclement and at the time moving the key city of Caucacus. Moscow dispatches stressed the importance of this action which apparently swings a considerable weight along the railroad toward Rostov.

Special-Effects Makeup The Wizard of Oz 1939 | Jack Dawn Hollywood Makeup Artist 1939 | History of Wizard of Oz Movie
1939, Hollywood History, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles

The Birth of Special-Effects Makeup
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1939)

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Here is an article about one of the most innovative minds in the nascent world of Hollywood makeup design; it belonged to a fellow named Jack Dawn (1892 – 1961). Dawn was under contract at MGM for decades and worked on over two hundred films, his most being the film that is discussed herein: The Wizard of Oz (1939, MGM). The article briefly touches upon the thin, rubbery masks that he created after having made numerous in depth studies of human bone and muscle.

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Levittown Newspaper Article 1952 | Levittown 1950s
1952, Pageant Magazine, Recent Articles, Suburbia

Levittown: The Birth of the Modern Suburb
(Pageant Magazine, 1952)

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When the Second World War ended in 1945 the Europeans began shoveling themselves out of the rubble while simultaneously erecting their respective nanny-states. By contrast, the Americans set out on a shopping-spree that has yet to be matched in history. Never before had so many people been able to purchase so many affordable consumer products, and never before had there ever been such a variety; aided by the G.I. Bill, housing was a big part of this binge – and binge they did! The apple of their collective eyes involved a style of prefabricated housing that was called Ranch House, Cape Cod and Early American. Millions of them were built all across the country – and the financial model for these real estate developers came from a Long Island, New York man named William J. Levitt.


Attached is an article titled 15 Minutes with Levitt of Levittown.

1944, Japanese Soldiers, Recent Articles, Yank Magazine

Who Was Tougher: The Japanese or The Germans?
(Yank Magazine, 1944)

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By the end of 1943 Major General Joseph Lawton Collins (1917 – 1987) was one of two U.S. generals to give battle to both the Japanese in the East and the Germans in the West (Curtis Lemay was the other general). In this two page interview with Yank Magazine correspondent Mack Morriss, General Collins answered the question as to which of the two countries produced the most dangerous fighting man:

The Jap is tougher than the German. Even the fanatic SS troops can’t compare with the Jap…Cut off an outfit of Germans and nine times out of 10 they’ll surrender. Not the Jap.


Click here to read another article in which the Japanese and Germans were compared to one another.


Click here to read an interview with a Kamikaze pilot.

The Woman Who Didn't Want to Dress Like Jackie... (Coronet Magazine, 1961)
1961, Coronet Magazine, Jackie, Recent Articles

The Woman Who Didn’t Want to Dress Like Jackie…
(Coronet Magazine, 1961)

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This unique (and thankfully humorous) voice lets us know how widespread The Jackie Look was in the America of the early sixties – but she will have non of it:

I am accepting all offers – including Confederate money – for my Jackie Kennedy wardrobe of sleeveless ‘avant-garde’ dresses and pill-box hats. I’ll even throw in a necklace or three of pearls. If you insist, and I hope you do, I’ll also add my French cookbook and my water-color set… I have had it. I just don’t want to look like Jackie Kennedy. The competition is becoming far too keen.


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What Was New York City Like in 1945
1945, Old New York History, Yank Magazine

Manhattan During Wartime
(Yank, 1945)

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This is a three page article concerning the city of New York from Yank‘s on-going series, Home Towns in Wartime.

The Yank correspondent, Sanderson Vanderbilt, characterized Gotham as being overcrowded (in 1945 the population was believed to be 1,902,000; as opposed to the number today: 8,143,197) and I’m sure we can all assume that today’s New Yorkers tend to feel that their fore-bearers did not know the meaning of the word.

New York was the home base of Yank Magazine and this article presents a young man’s view of that town and the differences that he can recall when he remembers it’s pre-war glory (Sanderson tended to feel that the city looked a bit down-at-the-heel).

Click here if you would like to read an article about the celebrations in New York the day World War Two ended.
Read a Vanity Fair article about New York during W.W. I


Click here to read about the first NYC air-raid wardens of 1942.

American Women During the 1930 s Great Depression | Job Statistics for Women in the Great Depression
1934, New Outlook Magazine, Recent Articles, The Great Depression

The Lot of Women in the Great Depression
(New Outlook Magazine, 1934)

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An editorial by two American feminists who insisted that the economic depression of the Thirties had knocked the wind right out of the Women’s Movement. They argued that some of the high ground that was earned in the preceding decades had been lost and needed to be taken back; their points are backed up by figures from the U.S. Census Bureau as well as other agencies. Much column space is devoted to the employment discrimination practiced by both state and Federal governments in favor of single women at the expense of the married. It is grievously made clear that even the sainted FDR Administration was one of the cruel practitioners of wage inequality.


CLICK HERE to read about the pay disparity that existed between men and women during the 1930s.

Abraham Lincoln: The Boy (National Park Service, 1956)
1956, Abraham Lincoln, Recent Articles, The National Park Service

Abraham Lincoln: The Boy
(National Park Service, 1956)

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Following the death of his mother, Nancy Hanks, the future president was but six years old. Lincoln’s father, Thomas Lincoln, then married Sarah Bush and the family moved to Indiana. The Lincoln family was poor and suffered hardships living in the Indiana wilderness but a bond was created between stepmother Sarah and the boy Abraham that was never broken. From the age of nine and throughout the rest of his life Lincoln would call her, Mother.


These are the tender memories of his boyhood that she called to mind just five months after the assassination.

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1947 Di Giorgio Strike Bakersfield | History of California Farm Labor Struggles
1947, Agricultural Labor, Commonweal Magazine, Recent Articles

Government-Supplied Scabs
(Commonweal Magazine, 1947)

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Writing to the editors of the news monthly, Commonweal during the Autumn of 1947 was Harry Leland Mitchell (1906 – 1989), president of the Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union who reported that the National Farm Labor Union was engaged in an important strike against the Di Giorgio Corporation in Bakersfield, California:

First, the Di Giorgio Corporation is the world’s largest fruit-producing corporation… it is to large scale industrialized agriculture what Ford is to the automobile industry. If the National Farm Labor Union wins the strike, it will be possible to proceed rapidly to the [organizing] of the migratory agricultural workers of California.


– but the union didn’t win. Di Giorgio, in league with the Department of Agriculture, secured foreign laborers to break the strike.

A-20 Havoc Bomber Aircraft | Boston Bomber in WW II | A-20 Bomber in WW II
1944, Weapons and Inventions, Yank Magazine

The American A-20 Havoc
(Yank Magazine, 1944)

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An enthusiastic Yank Magazine article about the Douglas DB-7/A-20 Havoc (the British called it the A-20 Boston): throughout the course of the war, there was no other attack bomber that was manufactured in greater quantity than this one (7,477).

An eyewitness report of a pre-invasion mission over the continent in one of the newest and most effective U.S. air weapons, an attack bomber that looks like an insect but moves and hits with the speed of a meteor…

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1920s Chicago Gangsters | 1920s Chicago Bootleggers
1927, Prohibition History, Recent Articles, The Chicagoan

Prohibition – Chicago Style
(The Chicagoan, 1927)

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By 1927 it was common knowledge to every Chicago-based journalist that any reporter who wrote truthfully or seemed in any way outraged by the business practices of Al Capone – and others of his ilk, was likely to be found face down in Lake Michigan. The writer who penned this piece probably had that fact in mind while sitting at the typewriter; it is not an apology for the Chicago gangsters, it simply implies that they are established, the police are complicit – so get used to it. The writer then begins to explain how the bootlegging and distribution business operated – some of the up-and-coming hoods of the day must have been gratified to read that there was plenty of room for advancement within each organization.


A history of Chicago vaudeville can be read here…

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