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Critical Article on FDR 1942 | George Creel on FDR 1942 | Youthful Optimism of FDR
1942, F.D.R., Liberty Magazine

Sticking It to FDR
(Liberty Magazine, 1942)

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George Creel (1876 – 1953), the nation’s first and only official censor (1917 – 1918), knew FDR for twenty-five years, and in this wartime recollection he made FDR wish that the two had never met. This is the type of article Creel would never have allowed to be published twenty some years earlier because it sought to reduce confidence in the Commander-in-Chief. Yet, with the war in its eleventh month, Creel gave it to FDR with both barrels:


“No man ever dreamed more nobly or had less skill in making his dreams come true.”

FDR's High Wartime Taxation | Federal Income Tax on the WW2 Home Front
1942, F.D.R., PM Tabloid

FDR’s Proposal to Limit Personal Income
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

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By the end of the war, FDR’s administration had placed taxable personal income as high as 94%(!). His Brain Trust were all big believers in Federal intervention into the economy – offering all sorts of price freezes and wage freezes in order to limit competition during the Great depression (as if that was a good). As the war kicked-in to high gear, FDR installed a low ceiling upon all high-earners and capped their salaries at $25,000.00 per-year.


Click here to read about FDR’s airplane.

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Naval Construction Battalions in WW2 | Seabees on Guadalcanal 1942
1945, All Hands Magazine, War at Sea

More About the Seabees
(All Hands Magazine, 1945)

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“From the start the naval Construction Battalions were unusual outfits, mostly because of the men in them and because theirs was a new kind of warfare… Every Seabee found himself doubling in various trades. It was thus the construction men developed their most important tools – improvisation, ingenuity and guts. Often parts, materials and equipment had to be manufactured on the spot in shops hastily thrown together from salvaged enemy materials and tools… But as the Seabee organization grew (from an original force of 3,300 to a peak of 247,155, of which 83 percent were overseas) and its activities increased, the battalions picked up plenty of know-how, enabling them to smooth out and speed up operations.”

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Tank Warfare in Tunisia 1943 | Stuart M-3 Light Tank Fighting in North Africa 1943 | Primary Source Article Concerning Tank Warfare in North Africa 1943
1943, American Magazine, North Africa

An American Tank in Tunisia
(American Magazine, 1943)

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Here is first-person account of life in an M3 Stuart tank fighting in Tunisia:


“We were ordered to hold, and hold we did. But we took a terrible shellacking. We dodged around, spitting at the Germans with our little 37mm gun. Every now and then one of their heavy tank shells or high-velocity 88s would hit one of our light tanks and smash it. The wounded would crawl out, and those who could walk would carry or drag those who couldn’t… In the afternoon, when we were finally ordered to withdraw, we had only 9 of 18 tanks left, and some of those were damaged. We took what wounded we could into the tanks and held them in our arms.”

1944, Pageant Magazine, War at Sea

The Seabees
(Pageant Magazine, 1944)

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In another article on this site, these words were quoted from the captured dispatches of a Japanese general writing to his superiors:


“[The Yank] is a wizard at handling machinery and he can build airfields, roads and advance bases with uncanny speed.”


– he was, of course, referring to the famous Construction Battalions (Seabees) of the U.S. Navy. This article will tell you all about them.

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Secret US Navy Base in China | American-Trained Chinese Guerillas in WW2
1945, All Hands Magazine, Sino-Japanese Wars

SACO: Training Guerrillas in China
(All Hands Magazine, 1945)

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“Another Now It Can Be Told story – one of the best kept secrets of the Pacific war – came out last month when it was revealed that a U.S. naval group had been operating with Chinese guerillas behind the Jap lines in China. Their combined efforts, the Navy disclosed, had been a vital factor in the smashing blows of the Pacific Fleet against Jap-held islands, the Jap Navy and, finally Japan itself.”

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Short History of the Battle of the Atlantic 1941 - 1945 by Admiral Ingram USN | Battle for the Shipping Lanes 1941 - 1945
1945, All Hands, War at Sea

The Battle for the North Atlantic
(All Hands, 1945)

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Throughout the course of World War II, there were three admirals who commanded to U.S. Atlantic Fleet: King, Ingersoll and Ingram. It was Admiral Jonas Ingram (1887 – 1952) who wrote the attached article about battle for the Atlantic:


“The Atlantic Fleet’s record speaks for itself. Since the declaration of war we have escorted 16,760 ships across the Atlantic. Of these, less than a score were sunk in convoy…We know definitely that we sunk 126 U-boats…”


Click here to read a related article.

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1936, Pathfinder Magazine, Purges and Show Trials

In Search of Trotskyites
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1936)

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“Throughout Russia last week Dictator Joseph Stalin continued his ‘purge’ against ‘Trotskyites’.”


“In this natural aftermath of the execution a fortnight ago of 16 conspirators against the Soviet regime, no Trotskyite was spared. Nor was anyone suspected of Trotsky leanings overlooked. Journalists, officials, high-ranking Red Army officers, heads of banks, railroads, publishing houses, and many celebrities in literary and theatrical pursuits felt the heavy hand of the Kremlin government.”

How to Attack a German Town 1945 ? Plans of an Infantry Assault 1945
1945, Coronet Magazine, World War Two

Planning an Assault
(Coronet Magazine, 1945)

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Here is an interesting article from World War Two that goes into some detail explaining what is involved when a lieutenant colonel in an infantry regiment presents his plan of attack on a German town that is heavily defended. We hear him as he addresses the junior officers who will do the heavy lifting, and we get a sense of their concerns. Few reporters have ever paid any attention to this aspect of an assault.

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