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Late War Combat Training: Camp Wheeler (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, Combat Training, Yank Magazine

Late War Combat Training: Camp Wheeler (Yank Magazine, 1945)

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The attached article weighs the way infantry basic training was conducted at the beginning of the war and how it had changed as the war progressed, evolving into something a bit different by 1945. The training period was originally a 13 week cycle in 1941, yet in time after carefully watching the soldiers in the field and finding that infantrymen needed a broader understanding of the tools at hand, the infantry training at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, had been extended an extra two weeks. One of the obvious factors involved a far wider pool of combat veterans to rely upon as instructors.


Five years after the war, many infantry replacement camps had to reopen…


You might also like to read this article about W.W. II cavalry training.

Statistical data concerning the U.S. Army casualties in June and July of 1944 can be read in this article.

New York Theatre in the Forties (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, Old New York History, Yank Magazine

New York Theatre in the Forties (Yank Magazine, 1945)

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An article about New York’s Broadway theater scene during the Second World War:

Show people will never forget the year 1944. Thousands of men and women from the legitimate theater were overseas in uniform -actors and actresses, writers, scene designers, stage hands – and all looked back in wonderment at what war had done to the business… Letters and newspapers from home told the story. On Broadway even bad shows were packing them in…


Click Here to Read an Article About KKK Activity in New York City

Six Color Photos of 1940 Manhattan (Click Magazine, 1940)
1940, Click Magazine, Old New York History

Six Color Photos of 1940 Manhattan (Click Magazine, 1940)

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If you’ve been wandering the internet hoping to get some idea what the fair isle of Manhattan looked like on 1940s color film, then your search is over (for a little while). These color images first appeared in a 1940 issue of Click Magazine and you will get a glimpse of the Bowery, Broadway, and Fifth Avenue -there are also two color pictures of New York at night for all of you wanted to see what the door man at El Morocco wore or the club-crawlers in Harlem.

New York Beneath a Bombsight (Coronet Magazine, 1941)
1941, Coronet Magazine, Old New York History

New York Beneath a Bombsight (Coronet Magazine, 1941)

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When this article hit the newsstands, W.W. II was in full swing throughout many parts of Asia, Europe and North Africa. America had not yet committed itself to the war, but the grim, far-seeing souls who ran New York City recognized that it was inevitable – and much to their credit, they had been studying the possibility of New York City air raids since 1939.


Another article about wartime N.Y. can be read here…

Click here to learn about the New Yorkers who volunteered to fight the Germans and Japanese in W.W. II.

Has Germany Forgotten Anne Frank? (Coronet Magazine, 1960)
1960, Aftermath (WWII), Coronet Magazine, Recent Articles

Has Germany Forgotten Anne Frank? (Coronet Magazine, 1960)

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In this article the proud father of Anne Frank, Otto Frank (1889 – 1980), explains that by the late Fifties it seemed more and more teenagers were contacting him to say that very few parents or teachers seemed willing to discuss the Nazi years in Germany. These inquiries were too often dismissed as bothersome or simply brushed away with hasty answers like, The Nazis built the Autobahns.


Otto Frank points out that this was not always the case, and goes on to recall that there existed a more sympathetic and regretful Germany for at least a decade after the war. Yet, in 1960 he sensed that there existed a subtle movement to whitewash Hitler; a battle was being waged for the mind of this teenage generation.


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Click here to read about the inmate rebellions that took place at Auschwitz, Sobibor and Triblinka.

Brazil Goes to War (Click Magazine, 1942)
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Brazil Goes to War (Click Magazine, 1942)

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The government of Brazil declared war on Hitler’s Germany on August 22, 1942, and you’d best believe that the over-paid photographers of CLICK MAGAZINE were Johnny-on-the-spot to document all the joyous mayhem that let loose on those flag-strewn boulevards of the Brazilian capitol:

Brazilians are fighting mad. When Brazil joined the United Nations in war on August 22nd, the formal declaration was a climax to the democratic action of its citizens who began, months ago, to let the world know how they felt about the Axis.

The pent-up rage of a sorely-tried nation burst in earnest when war was declared. With unanimous enthusiasm, the people mobbed the streets, cheering everything that was part of the Allied cause…Day after day, anti-fascist demonstrations, and pageants choked the streets of Rio de Janiero, where the pictures on this page were taken.


On that day, Brazil became the 32nd nation to declare war against Germany.

*Read a 1944 Article About the Brazilian Army in Italy*

The Lampooning of Picasso (Literary Digest, 1913)
1913, Cubism, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

The Lampooning of Picasso (Literary Digest, 1913)

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A child could do that has been one of the most common utterances in response to the avant-garde movements of modern art. This short article reflects that view and was written in response to the New York Armory Show, which at that time, was attracting a good deal of attention in the press. The Armory Show is well-remembered today as the first art exhibition to introduce European-style modernism to the people (and artists) of that city. Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), as the co-creator of Cubism, is among those lampooned, as is Marcel Duchamp (1887 – 1968) for his painting, A Nude Descending the Staircase.


Another Picasso article can be read here…

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