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The News of the W.W. I Armistice (The Stars and Stripes, 1918)
1918, Stars and Stripes Archive, The Stars and Stripes

The News of the W.W. I Armistice
(The Stars and Stripes, 1918)

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By the time this news column was read by the American Doughboys the truce was old news, however it makes for an interesting read as it is able to impart much of the Armistice excitement that filled the streets of Paris when the news of the surrender hit the boulevards. This front-page column makes clear that many of the rumors pertaining to the German collapse could not be verified, yet affirms reports concerning the revolution in Germany, it’s food shortages and the Kaiser’s exile to Holland.

Click here to read World War II articles from YANK MAGAZINE.

The A.E.F. Tank Corps (The Stars and Stripes, 1919)
1919, Stars and Stripes Archive, The Stars and Stripes

The A.E.F. Tank Corps
(The Stars and Stripes, 1919)

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This article appeared some seven months after the war, and it presents an interesting account of the first American tank units that ever existed.


The preferred tank of the American Army of World War I was a light tank made by the French called a Renault. It had a crew of two, measured 13 feet (4 meters) in length and weighed 6.5 tons. The tank’s 35 hp. engine moved it along at a top speed of 6 miles per hour. This article outlines where the American tanks fought, which units they supported and who commanded them; some readers may be interested to know that reference is made to the First American Tank Brigade and the officer in charge: Lieutenant Colonel George S. Patton (1885 – 1945).

During the course of the Meuse-Argonne battles, the tank units of the 1st Brigade had lost 3 officers and 16 enlisted men killed, and 21 officers and 131 enlisted men were wounded. These losses were suffered in 18 separate engagements…


Read about General Patton, Click here


Read other articles from 1919.

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Yanks on the Marne: The Battle of Chateau-Thierry (The Stars and Stripes, 1918)
1918, Stars and Stripes Archive, The Stars and Stripes

Yanks on the Marne: The Battle of Chateau-Thierry
(The Stars and Stripes, 1918)

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The American performance at the battle of Chateau-Thierry proved to General Foche that the Americans had the necessary stuff, and it was widely recognized that the Doughboys played the key roll in keeping the Germans out of Paris.

The attached STARS AND STRIPES article is extremely detailed as to the individual units (both French and American) that participated in rolling back the Germans along the Marne.

On June 4, the best information available indicated that the enemy was employing not less than 33 divisions, about 3000,000 men…But like the defenders of Verdun, the American machine gunners set their teeth and said, ‘They shall not pass.’

Stars and Stripes Folds it's Tent (American Legion Weekly, 1919)
1919, Stars and Stripes Archive, The American Legion Weekly

Stars and Stripes Folds it’s Tent
(American Legion Weekly, 1919)

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An article by The American Legion Weekly correspondent Rex Lapham about the last issue (until the next war) of The Stars and Stripes. The article recorded many sentimental remarks, words of praise and seldom heard facts about the history of the Doughboy newspaper.

If the paper found it’s way across, as it surely did, into the hands of the German intelligence officers – if that’s what they could be called – it must have given them something to ponder about. How could they have reported anything favorable to the ears of the German high command after having perused this defiant and determined manifestation of Doughboy psychology?

Click here to read how the newspaper was staffed and managed in 1918 Paris.

US 92nd Division in Italy | 92nd Division (colored) 1944 | NYT Reporter Milton Bracker in WW2 Italy
1945, African-American Service, Newsweek

Jim Crow at Newsweek
(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

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What a thoroughly outrageous article this is! In my experience reading news pieces from both world wars I have never once come across one in which the journalist pinpoints a particular fighting unit and labels it as substandard – but that is exactly what happens in this article about the all-black 92nd Division. Previously, I never thought such a thing would ever happen with a censored press that sought to preserve the morale of both soldiers and home front – but I was wrong.

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American English is Better Than U.K. English... (Literary Digest, 1922)
1922, American English, The Literary Digest

American English is Better Than U.K. English…
(Literary Digest, 1922)

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E.B. Osborn of the London Morning Post reviewed H.L. Mencken’s book, The American Languagestyle=border:none (1921) and came away amused and in agreement with many of the same conclusions that the Bard of Baltimore had reached:

…Americans show superior imaginativeness and resourcefulness; for example, movie is better than cinema…The American language offers a far greater variety of synonyms than ours; transatlantic equivalents for drunk are Piffled, spifflicated, awry-eyed, tanked, snooted, stewed, ossified, slopped, fiddled, edged, loaded, het-up, frazzled, jugged and burned.


Read about the Canadian Preferences in English…


– from Amazon: A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth Centurystyle=border:none

First Moscow Conference 1941
1941, Joseph Stalin, The American Magazine

Harry Hopkins and Stalin
(The American Magazine, 1941)

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Bromance was in the air when Harry Hopkins (1890 – 1946) went to Moscow to meet Joseph Stalin (1876 – 1953) for their second meeting:

He shook my hand briefly, firmly, courteously. He smiled warmly. There was no waste of word, gesture, nor mannerism. It was like talking to a perfectly coordinated machine, an intelligent machine. Joseph Stalin knew what he wanted, knew what Russia wanted and he assumed that you knew.


Mic-drop.

Harry Hopkins Magazine Article | Who Was Harry Hopkins | Diana Hopkins Daughter of Harry Hopkins
1944, F.D.R., The United States News

Harry Hopkins – FDR’s Right Hand
(United States News, 1944)

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This article makes it quite clear that Harry Hopkins (1890 – 1946) wore many hats in the administration of FDR.
During the first five years of the New Deal he had the unique title Special Assistant to the President, he not only wrote speeches for FDR – Hopkins also oversaw the goings-on at the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Between the years 1938 through 1940, he served as Secretary of Commerce and when the war came he supervised the Lend-Lease program, the Chairman of the Munitions Assignment Board and traveled frequently as the President’s representative to Moscow and London.


When the U.S.S.R. collapsed, it was discovered that one of his additional duties was being a Soviet agent.


Click here to read about another member of the New Deal Brain-Trust…


Read an anti-Gandhi article from 1921…

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Director Fritz Lang in 1943 | The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse Movie Review 1943
1943, Hollywood, PM Tabloid

The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse
(PM Tabloid, 1943)

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The reason the Nazis banned The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse was that it was a political preachment against Hitler ‘socialism,’ by a man [Fritz Lang] whose films were appreciated by the Germans as true interpretations of the social trends of post-war Germany… Lang’s intention in the film was, in his own words, ‘to expose the masked Nazi theory of the necessity to deliberately destroy everything which is precious to a people so that they would lose all faith in the institutions and ideals of the State. Then, when everything collapsed, they would try to find help in the new order.’

Slim Aarons in Cassino (Yank Magazine, 1944)
1944, Photographers, Yank Magazine

Slim Aarons at Cassino
(Yank Magazine, 1944)

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Society photographer Slim Aarons (1916 – 2006) is remembered for chronicling the swells of Palm Beach and Newport during the 1960s for Town & Country, among other magazines, but before he was able to have those villa doors open for him he had to first pay his dues at Yank Magazine, photographing the dung and destruction of World War Two.
This is an article he wrote about all that he saw during the Battle of Monte Cassino (January 17, 1944 – May 19, 1944), accompanied by five of his photographs.

Yvonne De Carlo magazine article | Yvonne De Carlo Hollywood Actress
1945, Collier's Magazine, Hollywood History

Yvonne De Carlo Arrives
(Collier’s Magazine, 1945)

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A 1945 Collier’s Magazine article about Yvonne De Carlo (a.k.a. Lilly Munster: 1922 – 2007) that appeared shortly after her first big break in Hollywood, Salome, Where She Danced. At the time of this interview the actress had well-over fifteen minor films on her resume but the journalist chose to claim that Salome was her first, just for the unbelievable glamor of it all; he also chose to shave three years off her age.

Yvonne De Carlo was born twenty years ago in Vancouver, British Columbia…She was a featured dancer at Earl Caroll’s and earned the undying respect of the producer by tipping the scales at a svelte 115 pounds, standing on the runway at a mere 5 feet four inches, and by displaying an 11 -/2 -inch neck, a 36 bust, a 24 waist, 32 hips a 7 1/2 -inch ankle, and 15 2/3 -inch wrist.

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Celebrities Served WW2 Military | Hollywood Actors Who Got Out of the WWII Draft
1942, Hollywood, Photoplay Magazine

Who in Hollywood Received Draft Deferments
(Photoplay Magazine, 1942)

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This article first appeared at the end of America’s first full year of war and it is composed of the names and pictures of Hollywood’s leading men who were absolved from fulfilling their military obligations during the war.

The personalities of the fabulous films are on the spot in the matter of serving their country. It is useless to deny that the motion picture stars have been getting the best of it. Some have been given special draft deferments and choice assignments and often have been allowed extra months to finish their pictures before having to report for duty.


Click here to read about the American draft-dodgers of the Second World War.

Post-War Economic Boom in Fifties Fashion | 1950 s Prosperity and Effect Upon US Culture | Claire McCardell at home plaid gown
1950s Fashion, 1951, Quick Magazine

The Strong Economy and its Effect on Fashion
(Quick Magazine, 1951)

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The antidote to the austere fashion deprivations of the 1930s and the wartime fabric restrictions that characterized the Forties arrived in the immediate post-war period when designers were at last permitted to make manifest their restrained cleverness and create an aesthetic style in a mode that was overindulgent in its use of fabric. This fashion revolt commenced in Paris, when Christian Dior showed his first collection in 1947 – couturiers in every style capitol in the West willingly kowtowed and a new era in fashion was born.

WAAC Truck Drivers (Click Magazine, 1943)
1943, Click Magazine, WACs

WAAC Truck Drivers
(Click Magazine, 1943)

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A Click Magazine photo-essay about the hard-charging WAACS of the Motor Transport School in glamorous Daytona Beach, Florida. Trained to operate and maintain two-ton trucks, the American women of the WAACs were mobilized to run the vast convoy system within the U.S. in order to free-up their male counterparts for more dangerous work in hostile regions.


Click here to read about the most famous woman truck driver in all of World War II…

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