With all the young athletes gone with the draft, the American sports world had to get used to following the contests of men whose careers should have ended some time ago.
A nifty article about how well-made Jeeps were, who made them, who tested them and just how popular they were among the Lend-Lease crowd.
The attached article originally appeared in a magazine intended for American veterans of the First World War. The author, a veteran as well, compares the slop he was served some twenty years earlier with what the U.S. Army was serving in 1942: he was quite impressed.
Award winning biographer Emil Ludwig takes a crack at profiling Joseph Stalin for the editors of Liberty Magazine. Stalin is portrayed as a cautious, secretive dictator (aside from this, he was a great guy).
Attached is a 1942 article about Al Schmid (1920 – 1982), who was awarded the Navy Cross for all that he did during the Battle of Allegator Creek (the Marines were the allegators). You’ll remember that slaughterous, one-sided contest from the sixth episode of HBO’s “The Pacific” (2010). Private Schmid was credited with killing 200 Japanese soldiers.
A short article written in praise of the movie director George Stevens (1904 – 1975) and his social skills that are applied while working with difficult actors.
Henry Heigis was an American inventor; we may not know his name today – but you can bet that American GIs, sailors, and pilots knew his inventions.
“Mrs. Ad Topperwein, age 60, of San Antonio, Texas, is ranked as the greatest living woman marksman. During the past year she traveled 50,000 miles to teach dead-eye rifle shooting to soldiers in over 100 army camps.”
The Civil Works Administration was established in 1933 as a part of FDR’s National [Industrial] Recovery Act. It was intended to be a job creation program for construction workers. It met its end as a result of mismanagement a year later and its personnel were swept up and divided between the CCC and the Public Works Administration.
Attached is negative review of the Machine Art exhibit (1934) launched at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Even to this day we find that modernism is one of the most misunderstood art movements of them all, and this anonymous reviewer allows us to understand the thinking of the movement’s detractors.
One month after Lincoln was elected president on November sixth, the delegates gathered in South Carolina for the Secession Convention. The representatives from South Carolina resign from Congress, other Southerners follow. Major Anderson removed his Federal troops from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter.
A printable chronology of the important events that occurred during the first year of the American Civil War: 1861.
In April of 1861 the first gallons of blood begin to pour and as December slowly rolled around, news spreads of a battle fought by one Native American tribe loyal to the Union against another tribe siding with the Rebels. For the next two years the great momentum of the war would be on the side of the Confederacy.
Click here to read about the heavy influence religion had in the Rebel states during the American Civil War.
A printable chronology of the major events that took place during 1862, the second year of the American Civil War.
The high hopes that both sides enjoyed during the previous year had entirely vanished and were replaced instead by a sense of grim determination.
Here is a chronology of the major events that took place during 1863, the bloodiest year of the American Civil War.
This article is about a meeting that the Duke had with his sister, Princess Mary (1897 – 1965) in Vienna two months after his abdication:
“Purpose of the Princess Royal’s visit, withheld officially, was reported to be to discuss with the Duke his future financial position, his prospective marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson, and the sale of Sandringham, Edward’s country estate in England.”
It was rumored that her true assignment was to persuade him not to marry “that woman”. Although it is not mentioned in the article, it has been said that he agreed to the sum of £25,000 per annum (an agreement he very soon regretted.)
This article explains FDR’s plan for the Court and then goes a good deal deeper. This unnamed journalist pointed out that these frustrations were not new to the executive office. Earlier presidents had similar dustups in 1823, 1869 and 1900.
“Wainwright never had a fighting chance in his last command in the Philippines… But in those last few days he demonstrated his fine soldiery demeanor, leadership, courage, and resourcefulness.”
“The Fall of Corregidor (May 6, 1942) marked the end of an epic fight that won acclaim from Allied leaders the world over. The most heartfelt tribute came from Gen. MacArthur in Australia: ‘… But through the bloody haze of the last reverberating shot I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly men, still unafraid.'”
