More Letters from the German Home Front
“The information in letters found on the German dead, intimate and personal as it is, leads to some striking deductions. […]
1942
Articles from 1942
One Year of War
“In the twelve months since Pearl Harbor the American family has begun to experience war on the home front… More
FDR’s Proposal to Limit Personal Income
By the end of the war, FDR’s administration had placed taxable personal income as high as 94%(!). His Brain Trust
Pants for Women Become a Thing
The battle over pants for women had been going on long before this article came to press. Keeping in mind
Fighting in Winter (PM Tabloid, 1942)
Within a few weeks, Winter again will be sweeping down on the greatest battlefield in history… At Leningrad, the Fall rains are almost over. Now comes a month of dangerously dry, clear weather and then the snow. The Moscow zone will be thickly carpeted in white in seven or eight weeks. Allied strategists hope that the second Russian war Winter will bring a repition of the first, when Soviet skill in cold weather fighting finally drove the Nazis back.
‘Tanks Spearhead Nazi Offensive” (PM Tabloid, 1942)
The largest tank battle in history was fought on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. In April of 1943, 6,000 German and Soviet tanks, supported by some 2,000,000 infantrymen, had-at-it near the Russian city of Kursk. This article was written a year before the clash, and it informed the readers that armored engagements were becoming larger and larger with each one.
A New Kind of Naval Warfare (PM Tabloid, 1942)
In the seven months since Pearl Harbor the aircraft carrier has replaced the battleship as the true capital ship of modern naval warfare. The carrier’s rise to power reached a crushing climax in the battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway – the two most decisive naval engagements of the war thus far. Opposing fleets only struck at each other with bomber and torpedo planes and never fired a shot except in self-defense against aircraft.
The Outcast Americans (American Magazine, 1942)
Economically, the departure of the [Japanese-Americans] presented no particular problem in the cities… But it was different in the country. [They] had owned or controlled 11,030 farms valued at $70,000,000. They had produced virtually all the artichokes, early cantaloupes, green peppers and late tomatoes, and most of the early asparagus. They owned or controlled the majority of wholesale produce markets and thousand of retail vegetable stands. When they disappeared, the flow of vegetables stopped. Retail prices went up. Many vegetables vanished entirely. There were rumors of a food shortage.
Equal Pay for Equal War Work (PM Tabloid, 1942)
The War Labor Board has decreed ‘equal pay for equal work’ for women in war industry… George W. Taylor, WLB vice-chairman, wrote the decision and said that any other condition than that of pay equality was ‘not conducive to maximum production’.