1945

Articles from 1945

VE-Day in Philadelphia
(Philadelphia Record, 1945)

The citizens of Philadelphia took the news calmly. There were isolated pockets of tremendous joy, but many were wary because they had celebrated the event the previous month when a false rumor had circulated.

“Many soldiers and sailors were gathered in small groups in Market, Walnut and Chestnut streets. One said: ‘Even if it’s true, it doesn’t mean a thing. It’s over for us when we get out of this uniform.'”

VE-Day in Philadelphia
(Philadelphia Record, 1945)

The citizens of Philadelphia took the news calmly. There were isolated pockets of tremendous joy, but many were wary because they had celebrated the event the previous month when a false rumor had circulated.

“Many soldiers and sailors were gathered in small groups in Market, Walnut and Chestnut streets. One said: ‘Even if it’s true, it doesn’t mean a thing. It’s over for us when we get out of this uniform.'”

VE-Day in Philadelphia
(Philadelphia Record, 1945)

The citizens of Philadelphia took the news calmly. There were isolated pockets of tremendous joy, but many were wary because they had celebrated the event the previous month when a false rumor had circulated.

“Many soldiers and sailors were gathered in small groups in Market, Walnut and Chestnut streets. One said: ‘Even if it’s true, it doesn’t mean a thing. It’s over for us when we get out of this uniform.'”

The U.S. Navy at War’s End
(All Hands Magazine, 1945)

“During the final days of the war, the Navy’s carrier aircraft concentrated on northern Honshu, inflicting heavy damage on industrial targets of Hamaishi on the ninth of August. One of the last blows struck, however, was directed at Wake Island, where the Japs had scored one of their earliest victories of this war.”

The U.S. Navy at War’s End
(All Hands Magazine, 1945)

“During the final days of the war, the Navy’s carrier aircraft concentrated on northern Honshu, inflicting heavy damage on industrial targets of Hamaishi on the ninth of August. One of the last blows struck, however, was directed at Wake Island, where the Japs had scored one of their earliest victories of this war.”

The U.S. Navy at War’s End
(All Hands Magazine, 1945)

“During the final days of the war, the Navy’s carrier aircraft concentrated on northern Honshu, inflicting heavy damage on industrial targets of Hamaishi on the ninth of August. One of the last blows struck, however, was directed at Wake Island, where the Japs had scored one of their earliest victories of this war.”

The U.S. Navy at War’s End
(All Hands Magazine, 1945)

“During the final days of the war, the Navy’s carrier aircraft concentrated on northern Honshu, inflicting heavy damage on industrial targets of Hamaishi on the ninth of August. One of the last blows struck, however, was directed at Wake Island, where the Japs had scored one of their earliest victories of this war.”

The U.S. Navy at War’s End
(All Hands Magazine, 1945)

“During the final days of the war, the Navy’s carrier aircraft concentrated on northern Honshu, inflicting heavy damage on industrial targets of Hamaishi on the ninth of August. One of the last blows struck, however, was directed at Wake Island, where the Japs had scored one of their earliest victories of this war.”

The U.S. Navy at War’s End
(All Hands Magazine, 1945)

“During the final days of the war, the Navy’s carrier aircraft concentrated on northern Honshu, inflicting heavy damage on industrial targets of Hamaishi on the ninth of August. One of the last blows struck, however, was directed at Wake Island, where the Japs had scored one of their earliest victories of this war.”

”Nightmare Off Iwo”
(Our Navy, 1945)

“Nine months and a day after she was commissioned, the pug-nosed little carrier Bismark Sea (CVE-95) was as much in the two-day-old battle for Iwo Jima as the Marines fighting for the island’s lower air strip. This was her third major campaign in less than four months. Her career was just beginning, and the crew was proud of calling her the Busy Bee. She was a happy ship.”

Happy or not, after two Kamikazes hit home, the ship sank in just two hours, taking 318 men with her. She claimed the dubious distinction of being the last American carrier to be lost in the war.