Articles from Newsweek
The last eight months of the home front saw the suspension of all horse racing (in the interest of preserving tires and gas) and more foods, both delicious and otherwise, became a good deal harder to locate.
During the closing months of the war, the draft pool was increased, as well – click here to read about it.
More Restrictions for 1945 (Newsweek Magazine, 1945) Read More »
From inside Germany last week emerged the picture of a state that by all normal standards was in the last stages of dissolution… All signs indicated a physical breakdown perhaps as great as that of France in 1940… Refugees, mostly women and children with blankets around their bodies and shawls on their heads to protect them from the sub-zero weather, queue up for hours outside bakeries to get a loaf of bread. Draftees ride tanks in never-ending columns.
The Last Three Months (Newsweek Magazine, 1945) Read More »
An odor rises from the men, the characteristic odor of an army. It is the smell of of wool and the bitter smell of fatigue and the smell of gun oil and leather. Troops always have this odor. The men lie sprawled, some with their mouths open, but they do not snore. Perhaps they are too tired to snore, but their breathing is an inaudible, pulsing thing.
Click here to read a movie review of The Grapes of Wrath.
John Steinbeck of The N.Y. Herald Tribune (Newsweek Magazine, 1943) Read More »
The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:
Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.
Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…
Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…
With the Brazilians in Italy (Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1944) Read More »
The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:
Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.
Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…
Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…
With the Brazilians in Italy (Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1944) Read More »
The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:
Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.
Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…
Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…
With the Brazilians in Italy (Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1944) Read More »
The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:
Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.
Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…
Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…
With the Brazilians in Italy (Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1944) Read More »
The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:
Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.
Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…
Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…
With the Brazilians in Italy (Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1944) Read More »
The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:
Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.
Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…
Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…
With the Brazilians in Italy (Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1944) Read More »
The attached YANK MAGAZINE article was written from the perspective of the American G.I.; it lays out a few peculiar facts about life in the World War Two Brazilian Army:
Every type of South American racial strain is represented. This gives a squad the appearance of a capsule League of Nations, except that there are no blonds.
Read about the day Brazil declared war on Nazi Germany…
Mexico preferred not to participate in the war, but they did kick all the Fascist spies out of their country, click here to read about it…
With the Brazilians in Italy (Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1944) Read More »
