Baby-Boom: Here Come the Hippies! (Yank Magazine, 1945)This short little notice appeared in YANK some some five months prior to VJ-Day announcing that the U.S. Census Bureau has figured out that, unlike the First World War, this conflict has conjured-up six babies for every soldier and sailor killed in battle.
Germany's Dictated Peace Terms for the World (Omnibook Magazine, 1942)During the opening months of 1941 Nazi Germany was positively drunk with power; their army seemed able to march wherever it chose and all of Europe was trembling. Foreign correspondent for the Hearst papers, H.R. Knickerbocker (1898 – 1949), pointed out that on April 29, 1941 the Axis forces had printed, what he termed, a "trial balloon" on the pages of
the Japan Times Advertiser that clearly indicated the peace terms that were acceptable to them.
Knickerbocker provided an outline of the proposal as well as commentary in his 1942 bestseller, Is Tomorrow Hitler's?
:
"It is not a negotiated peace, it is a dictated peace...The Axis statement begins with the declaration that the day of small or weak nations is over, and no nation which cannot stand on its own feet may be permitted to exist... The nations called upon to settle world peace would be Germany, with Italy as a junior partner, Japan, the British Empire and the United States."
"Since the British government ignored it and the British and American press derided it, Germany dropped the idea for the moment, but you may be sure it has not dropped it for good. Seven weeks after its publication Hitler sent his armies into Russia."
Entertaining the Troops (Click Magazine, 1944)An article by celebrated newspaper critic Leonard Lyons
(1906 - 1976) saluting the dedicated entertainers who traveled to the most remote corners of the globe in an effort to bring a smile to the lips of those far-flung members of the American military who were engaged in the grim task of bringing the Second World War to an end. Illustrated with eight photographs depicting some of the assorted chuckle-monkies, balladeers and hams who are remembered as doing the lion share of entertaining, the article ends on a solemn note listing the names and talents of seven men and women who were killed on their tours.
You might also care to read about the USO performances of Marlene Dietrich.
Click here to read about the woman who entertained the U.S. troops during the First World War.
The Segregated U.S. Army (Coronet Magazine, 1960)Here is a segment from a longer article that tells the sad story about racial segregation in the U.S. Armed Forces. The small portion that is attached here tells of a secret group of fifty army researchers who were dispatched to the European front and
"interviewed thousands of [White] soldiers about their attitudes toward Negro platoons fighting experimentally within their divisions."
Their findings proved that to these front-line respondents, the experimental platoons were truly their equal. In 1948 this research was showed to President Truman, who signed Executive Order 9981, thus bringing to an end racial segregation within the ranks of the U.S. Military.
The U.S. Navy was the biggest offender
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