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. […]
World War Two
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One Year of War
“In the twelve months since Pearl Harbor the American family has begun to experience war on the home front… More
Prejudice on the Home Front
As the Allied Armies were nearing Berlin and Tokyo, U.S. magazines began running articles concerning the nation’s problems that had
The Strategist
Here is a Collier’s profile of U.S. Admiral Raymond Spruance (1886 – 1969): “Our latest successes in New Guinea, the Solomons and
The Bombed-Out Germans
A report by a Swiss journalist as to what becomes of the Germans who are left homeless after the bombings:
Canada Steps Up for Britain
In 1939, “Canada wisely decided that she could become an ideal training center for pilots and airmen generally. Canada could
American Leviathan
“It is the purpose of this article to show how in three years we have broken the shackles of all
An Eye-Full of Post-War Tokyo
An eyewitness account of the devastation delivered to Tokyo as reported by the first Americans to enter that city following the Japanese surrender some weeks earlier:
The people of Tokyo are taking the arrival of the first few Americans with impeccable Japanese calm. Sometimes they turn and look at us twice, but they have shown no emotion toward us except a mild curiosity and occasional amusement…They are still proud and a little bit superior. They know they lost the war, but they are not apologizing for it.
Click here to read about the humbled Japan.
Eating Crow (PM, & Newsweek Magazine, 1945)
Four years after Pearl Harbor, the editors of the Japanese newspaper Asahi gazed out of the windows from their offices and saw the charred remains of their enemy-occupied homeland and recognized that they’d made a fatal mistake:
We once more refresh our horror at the colossal crime committed and are filled with a solemn sense of reflection and self-reproach…
Eating Crow (PM, & Newsweek Magazine, 1945)
Four years after Pearl Harbor, the editors of the Japanese newspaper Asahi gazed out of the windows from their offices and saw the charred remains of their enemy-occupied homeland and recognized that they’d made a fatal mistake:
We once more refresh our horror at the colossal crime committed and are filled with a solemn sense of reflection and self-reproach…