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World War Two Film Clips
African-American Fighter Pilots (Click Magazine, 1943)
A three page photo-essay found on the yellowing pages of a 1943 issue of CLICK MAGAZINE introduced American readers to the flying "Black Panthers" of the U.S. Army Air Force; a fighter squadron composed entirely of African American pilots, trained "at the new $2000,000 airfield in Tuskegee, Ala.". The four paragraphs that tell their story are accompanied by eight portraits of the pilots and snap-shots of the assorted ground crew, mechanics and orderlies - all Black."They undoubtedly will reach a combat area this summer. One squadron, the 99th, has arrived overseas already. [These] pilots, whose insignia is a flame-spewing black panther, are rarin' to join them. They want to roar a personal answer to the Axis 'race superiority' lies."
| Medal of Honor Recipient Robert D. Maxwell (Collier's, 1945)
A 1945 article that reported on the brave and selfless acts of Robert D. Maxwell (b. 1920):
"COURAGE, like everything else, has its kinds of degrees. No one would detract a hair's weight from the bravery of the firing line, but in battle there is the heartening touch of a comrade's shoulder, the excitement of the charge, and the 50-50 chance of coming out alive. All these aids are lacking in those epic instances where men make death a deliberate choice...one example that stands out for sheer drama and sustained fortitude is that of Technician Fifth Grade Robert D. Maxwell, who covered a German hand grenade with his body, smothering the explosion that would have killed every member of his group."
Maxwell survived his wounds; seven months later he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his courage. He currently reside in Oregon.
| Brazil Goes to War (Click Magazine, 1942)
On August 22, 1942 the government of Brazil declared war on Hitler's Germany and you better believe that the under-paid photographers of CLICK MAGAZINE were Johnny-on-the-spot to photograph all the joyous mayhem that let loose on those broad-belted Brazilian boulevards:
"Brazilians are fighting mad. When Brazil joined the United Nations in war on August 22nd, the formal declaration was a climax to the democratic action of its citizens who began, months ago, to let the world know how they felt about the Axis."
"The pent-up rage of a sorely-tried nation burst in earnest when war was declared. With unanimous enthusiasm, the people mobbed the streets, cheering everything that was part of the Allied cause...Day after day, anti-fascist demonstrations, and pageants choked the streets of Rio de Janiero, where the pictures on this page were taken."
*Read a 1944 Article About the Brazilan Army in Italy*
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| The Death of the German Seventh Army (Yank Magazine, 1944)
A 1944 Yank Magazine article concerning the destruction of the once mighty German 7th Army:
"We have been told that the German Army, which fought so craftily and gave out to our men a share of death in Normandy, is now almost encircled by the great armored columns which broke through and swept around the enemy. But this army does not die easily...You can see the dead cows with their legs in the air and the dead Germans lying in the ditches along the way with faces turned upward toward the sun. You can see the dead Tiger tanks, burned out and rusty-red...The German 7th Army is dying." *The German 7th Army in Happier Days: Film-Footage of the 1940 Berlin Victory Parade*
| Can the Germans Take It? (Collier's, 1941)
A 1941 magazine article that reported on how the people of Berlin were faring after the first year of R.A.F. bombing. By war's end it was estimated that as many as 580,000 Germans were killed as a result of the Allied bombing campaign (many of them were children and far more women than men).
Read more 1940s articles concerning the W.W. II German home front.
Just how accurate was the Allied bombing campaign of Germany? Click here and find out.
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