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1944, D-Day, Yank Magazine

D-Day Plus Ten With the 82nd Airborne
(Yank Magazine, 1944)

By editor / November 6, 2019

The battle of the hedgerows as experienced by the paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division:

They all had been fighting since D-Day. Compared with the obstacles at the beginning of their drive, the hill they had just taken was only a minor deal, but it was no push-over. At some places, one paratrooper told me, the fighting was so close the Krauts didn’t even bother to throw their grenades, they just handed them over to us.

WW III Plans | Soviet Schemes for WW III | WW III Article

1950, Pageant Magazine, The Cold War

How the Soviets Would Have Attacked
(Pageant Magazine, 1950)

By editor / November 4, 2019

There wouldn’t be any warning.

Long-range Soviet bombers attempt to knock out our key industrial targets by atomic bombing. Some fly the 4,000, miles from Murmansk across the roof of the world to our East Coast; others strike from bases in Eastern Siberia at California and the Midwest… Simultaneously, organized sabotage breaks out in aviation plants, shipyards, power stations, etc., to complement the work of the bombers.

1945, G.I. Joe Magazine, World War Two

The Biased Military Courts of the U.S. Army
(G.I. Joe Magazine, 1945)

By editor / November 2, 2019

G.I. JOE MAGAZINE was established shortly after the war by a shrewd, commerce-driven soul who fully recognized that the American veterans of W.W. II would have a good deal to say about their military hardships, and would need a venue in which to do it. The attached article was written by a veteran who preferred to remain anonymous; the righteous indignation can be keenly sensed in his prose as he explained the three-tiered justice system that he believed to have been built into the offices of the U.S. Army military court system. The first tier meted out soft justice for officers, the second dispensed a harsh justice to White enlisted men, and the bottom tier dished-out a far more vile variety to the American soldiers of African descent.

Read an Article about Racial Integration in the U.S. Military

1947, Rob Wagner's Script Magazine, Twentieth Century Writers

A Review of Memorial by Christopher Isherwood
(Rob Wagner’s Script, 1947)

By editor / November 1, 2019

A review of Christopher Isherwood’s (1906 – 1986) semi-autobiographical novel, Memorial, which was placed in post-World War I Britain:

The plot of Memorial can be discussed very briefly: it doesn’t have one. It doesn’t need one. It is entirely fascinating, not a dramatic sequence of events, but an increasingly intimate understanding of a state of affairs…The book proceeds, not forward in time, but inward by layers. Isherwood has a wonderful gift of getting inside people.

1927, The Literary Digest, Twentieth Century Writers

Famous Edith Sitwell
(Literary Digest, 1927)

By editor / November 1, 2019

Edith Sitwell (1887 – 1964) had appeared on the literary horizon some fourteen years before this profile was read in the American press and by 1927 all concerned seemed to have decided that she had attained a respectable level of notoriety and was worthy of being labeled famous:

Miss Sitwell is described by THE SKETCH (London) as ‘an author who dislikes simplicity, morris-dancing, a sense of humor, and every kind of sport except reviewer-baiting.’

1947, Rob Wagner's Script Magazine, Twentieth Century Writers

A 1947 Review of THE BUTTERFLY by James M. Cain
(Rob Wagner’s Script, 1947)

By editor / November 1, 2019

Appearing in the Beverly Hills literary rag, Rob Wagner’s Script was the 1947 review of The Butterfly by James M. Cain (1892 – 1977):

I have not read Cain’s older books to confirm this impression, but offhand I would say that ‘The Butterfly’ is second to ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’, among his longer things, as an exhibition of his peculiar talents…This work concerns itself with incest. Technically, no incest is committed, but a marriage is made and consummated between two people, one of whom supposes that she is the other’s daughter…

From Amazon: The Butterfly

1947, Rob Wagner's Script Magazine, Twentieth Century Writers

COMMAND DECISION Book Review
(Rob Wagner’s Script, 1947)

By editor / November 1, 2019

Command Decision, the World War II novel by William Wister Haines (1908 – 1989), was written from the point of view of a general officer and the Allied effort to destroy the Nazi jet fighters before the Luftwaffe could muster the initiative and get the upper hand; the novel was based upon the author’s own wartime experiences serving with the American 8th Air Force in Europe during the Second World War. Haines enjoyed much critical and popular success when the book was released; a 1947 Broadway production ran for 409 performances and a film adaptation premiered in 1948 starring Clark Gable (who also served in the 8th Air Force).

Click here to read the 1947 book review of a William Saroyan war novel.

1913, The Literary Digest, Twentieth Century Writers

Reviewed: The Inside of the Cup by Winston Churchill
(Literary Digest,1913)

By editor / November 1, 2019

The 1913 book review of The Inside of the Cup by Winston Churchill (the other one) was so fraught with questions concerning the revolt of the Suffragettes and their disillusion with Christianity that the review was printed on the Religion Page of THE LITERARY DIGEST.

WW II American Traitor Jane Anderson |1940s Propaganda Radio Broadcasts of Jane Anderson

1943, American Traitors, Coronet Magazine

Jane Anderson of Georgia
(Coronet Magazine, 1943)

By editor / November 1, 2019

Jane Anderson began broadcasting from Berlin on April 14, 1941. When Nazi Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941 American citizens were repatriated from Germany but Anderson chose to remain.
She broadcast Nazi propaganda by way of a short wave radio for the German State Radio’s U.S.A. Zone, the Germans named her ‘The Georgia Peach’. Her programs regularly heaped high praise upon Adolf Hitler and ran ‘exposés’ of the ‘communist domination’ of the Roosevelt and Churchill administrations. She conducted numerous on-air interviews, the most famous among them was of her co-worker, the British traitor William Joyce. When Berlin fell she was on the run up until April of 1947, when she was caught in Salzburg, Austria and placed in the custody of the U.S. military.

1913, Famous Events Magazine, Vicksburg

The Siege of Vicksburg
(Famous Events, 1913)

By editor / October 29, 2019

A summary of General Grant’s victory at Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the summer of 1863. It is made clear to the reader how vital the city was to the Rebel’s defensive strategy in that Vicksburg was the last stronghold remaining which served to protect the Mississippi valley; President Jefferson Davis and his Confederates knew well that if the city fell, Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas would be isolated.

1950s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile | 1956 Atlas Rocket Invention | Cold War Missile Article

1956, Collier's Magazine, The Cold War

The ICBM
(Collier’s Magazine, 1956)

By editor / October 28, 2019

The U.S. and Russia are engaged in a race whose outcome may determine the course of history. The goal: development of the most frightful weapon conceived by man – a virtually unstoppable 16,000-mph intercontinental ballistic missile that can drop a hydrogen warhead on a city 5,000 miles away. At stake is not only the security of the free world , but our position as the world’s most technological and industrial power.

1949, Atomic Bombs, Pathfinder Magazine

Towards a Nuclear Strategy
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1949)

By editor / October 28, 2019

Here is the Pathfinder Magazine article about Air University; established in 1946 by the U.S. Department of War in order to train senior American Air Force officers to serve as strategic thinkers in the realm of national security. In 1949 that meant conceiving of ways to implement a successful strategy in which the Soviet Union would be defeated with nuclear weapons:

At AU’s apex is the Air War College. To its senior officer-students the question of destroying an enemy’s will to resist is grimly real. Killing ten million citizens of an enemy nation is no haphazard problem to the Air War College. In the statistics of modern war, a loss of approximately 4% of a nation’s population saps its will to resist…

Six months after this article was first read, the Soviets tested their first Atomic bomb; click here to read about that event.

1956, Atomic Bombs, The Dept. of the Army

The Atomic Bomb
(Dept. of the Army, 1956)

By editor / October 28, 2019

In ten lines the U.S. Army history section succinctly outlined Japan’s grim situation and the events that led up to the dropping of the bomb:

By the summer of 1945 it was obvious to most responsible leaders in Japan that the end of the war was near. For the first time those who favored ending the war came out in the open and in June, Japan sent out peace feelers through the Soviet Union. The rejection of the Potsdam Declaration of 26 July, however, sealed the doom of Japan…

Click here to read an article about American public opinion during the early Cold War years

1948, Atomic Bombs, Rob Wagner's Script Magazine

The Atomic Crusade
(Rob Wagner’s Script Magazine, 1948)

By editor / October 28, 2019

Attached is a 1948 article by the Nobel laureate Arthur Holly Compton (1892 – 1962) concerning the widespread understanding among nuclear physicists to wrestle control of atomic energy away from the military and firmly in the hands of civil authorities, where it’s benefits can be put to general use and harnessed as positive force in the lives of all mankind.

Awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1927, the SCRIPT MAGAZINE editors believed that Arthur Compton, more than anyone else, deserved the title Daddy of the Atomic bomb. When the U.S. Government decided to proceed with the research and development of this weapon, Compton was assigned the double task of attempting a nuclear chain reaction and of designing the bomb itself.

Compton is remembered as the senior physicist at the Manhattan Project who hired Dr. Robert Oppenheimer.

Click here to read an article about American public opinion during the early Cold War years.

Click here to read about the invention of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

1944, Japanese-American Internment, L.A. Times

600 Nisei Judged Disloyal
(L.A. Times, 1944)

By editor / October 28, 2019

About 630 American-born Japanese over the age of 17, now at the Poston (AZ.) relocation center, were found to be openly disloyal or of questionable loyalty to the United States, the Dies subcommittee learned at its hearing yesterday in the Federal Building…Among the 630 there were 606 men and 24 women.

1920, The London Mercury, Writing

A Visit to the Grave of Rupert Brooke
(The London Mercury, 1920)

By editor / October 26, 2019

Attached is an account by a learned traveler who journeyed to that one piece of ground on the isle of Skyros that will forever be England – the grave of the English poet Rupert Brooke (1887 – 1915). The literati who wrote the attached article went to great lengths imparting the significance of Skyros throughout all antiquity and it’s meaning to the world of letters – credited only as S. Casson, he informed his readers that he arrived on the island five years after the 1915 internment in order to erect the headstone that is currently in place, describing the shepherds and other assorted rustics in some detail while alluding tirelessly to the works of Homer.

1930s Fashion, 1933, Stage Magazine

Broadway Costume Design for the Fall
(Stage Magazine, 1933)

By editor / October 26, 2019

In his review of contemporary Broadway costume design for the Autumn of 1933, the fashion journalist asked the pressing question:

What is the well-dressed play wearing these days?

There was much talk of Chanel, Schiaparelli and the House of (Elizabeth) Hawes as he heaped the praises high and deep for the the rag-pickers who clothed the ungrateful actresses for such productions as Men in White, Undesirable Lady, Her Master’s Voice and Heat Lightning.

The fashions in the plays are vivid, authentic, and wearable. They have sprung from the gifted brains and fingers of the cream of the crop of designers, Schiaparelli and Chanel in Paris, and our own industrious Americans who, themselves, are becoming hardy annuals. The silhouette is lengthening into slim height but even in sports clothes corners are rounded and curves are accentuated…

1919, Almanach Hachette, Inventions and Weapons

A Diagram of Germany’s Only World War I Tank
(Almanach Hachette, 1919)

By editor / October 26, 2019

A black and white diagram depicting the interior and exterior of the German A7V heavy tank. Manufactured in the spring of 1918, only twenty were ever known to have existed. Although the illustration depicts only two men, it is said that the tank had a crew of 18 and measured 26 feet, three inches in length and 10.5 feet in width. The A7V had two heavy Maxim machine guns placed within it’s turret, while the tank’s primary weapon was a 57mm gun mounted at the very front (these guns were believed to have been of Russian or Belgian origin). The tank could travel an estimated fifty miles at the top speed of 6 mph; it weighed 32 tons and sported armor plating that was 30mm thick at the bow and 20mm thick all around. The tank’s two 150 horse-power, 4-cylinder water cooled engines were made by Daimler.

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