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‘Sand Diego – A Woman’s Town” (Click Magazine, 1944)

Sand Diego wanted women for its war industries. Since the beginning of the war boom San Diego has cajoled, bribed and appealed publicly for women. And San Diego got women, not only for the war industries, but for every other conceivable job. They became letter carriers, bus drivers, high-altitude window washers, milk deliverers, office workers.

With the Brazilians in Italy (Newsweek & Yank Magazines, 1944)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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…

Mexico: American Ally (Coronet Magazine, 1943)

When Manuel Avila Camacho (1897 – 1955) came to power as the president of Mexico (1940 – 1946) he immediately went to work kicking out the Fascist spies from Japan and Germany

He banned Nazi newspapers and cut Nazis off the air. He squashed the anti-Semitic Gold Shirts of Monterey and purged fifth columnists in key positions. He washed his hands of the Nazis and extended a hearty handclasp to Roosevelt.

S/Sgt. Henry E. Erwin Off the Coast of Japan (Collier’s Magazine, 1945)

War correspondents see and hear about many courageous acts that serve as a testimony to the level of personal commitment held high by many (but not all) of the American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who served in the Second World War, and when I read the opening paragraphs about this hero, I knew it was going to be unique:

His name is Staff Sergeant Henry E. Erwin of Bessemer, Alabama. He was the radio operator on a B-29, and what he did, we think, was the bravest thing we ever heard of.

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