old magazine article typewriter
OldMagazineArticles.com
   
 
  Home
  FAQs
  About Us
  Log In / Register
  Contact Us
  Legal Disclaimer
 



 
Recently Added Articles
  African-American History
 Ku Klux Klan
 Lynchings
  Civil War History
  Abraham Lincoln
 Chronology
 Gettysburg
 1925: Wind Power
 Aviation History
 Charles Lindbergh
 Women Pilots
 Zeppelins and Dirigibles
 Babe Ruth
 Benito Mussolini
 Car History
 1950s Cars
 Cartoons
 China - Twentieth Century
 Sino-Japanese War
 Dance
 European Royalty
 Duke of Windsor
 Elizabeth II
 F.D.R. and the Depression
 Eleanor Roosevelt
 Fashion
 1930s
 1940s
 Flapper Style
 Men’s Fashion
 Personal Beauty
 The New Look
 Food and Wine
 Football History
 Golf
 Immigration
 Canadian Immigration
 Jews in the 20th Century
 College Antisemitism
 Living History
 Magazine Interviews: 1912 - 1945
 Mahatma Gandhi
 Manners and Society
 Modern Art History
 Dada
 Modigliani
 Movie History
 Animation History
 Gone with the Wind
 Hollywood Blacklist History
 It's A Wonderful Life
 Talkies 1930s
 Music History
 Big Band 1930s-1940s
 Eric Satie
 Native Americans
 Old Iraq
 Old New York
 Opinions About Americans
 American English
 Prohibition History
 Prohibition Cartoons
 Religion
 Jefferson's Bible
 Silent Movie History
 Cartoons
 Charlie Chaplin
 D.W. Griffith
 Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford
 Soviet History
 Television History
 Tennis History
 The Nazis
 Adolf Hitler
 Hermann Goering
 Titanic History
 Twentieth Century Writers
 W.B. Yeats
 U.S. Army Uniforms of World War One
 Overseas Caps
 Trench Coats
 U.S. Armies, Corps and Divisions
 U.S. Navy Uniforms of World War One
 U.S. Marine Corps Uniforms
 Weird Inventions
 Women’s Suffrage
 Woodrow Wilson
 World War One
 African Americans
 Aftermath
 Animals
 Armistice
 Artists
 Belleau Wood
 British Uniforms
 Cartoons
 Cemeteries
 Censorship
 Clip Art
 Color Photographs
 Doughboys
 Draft Dodgers
 Fashion
 Gas Warfare
 Inventions and Weapons
 Letters
 Lusitania
 Poetry
 Posters
 Prelude
 Siberian Expedition
 Snipers
 Stars and Stripes Archive
 Trench Warfare
 Versailles Treaty
 Women
 Writing
 World War Two
 1930s Military Buildup
 Aftermath
 Animals
 Atomic Bomb
 Combat Training
 D-Day
 Fashion
 General Eisenhower
 General Marshall
 German Home Front
 Hollywood
 Home Front
 Iwo Jima
 Japanese-American Internment
 Japanese-American Service
 Kamikaze Attacks
 Paris
 Photographers
 Post-War Japan
 Prisoners of War
 VE Day
 VJ Day
 Weapons and Inventions
 Women
 Yank
  

World War Two Articles

Click here to email this page to a friend

               World War Two Film Clips

Buy World War II Magazine For Your Friends
Buy at Art.com
Tuskegee Airmen Attend a Briefing in ...

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*

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.


MORE ARTICLES >>> PAGE: * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 * 7 * 8 * 9 * 10 * 11 * 12 * > NEXT

More Yank Magazine Articles Can Be Read On Theses Pages As Well

World War Two Articles: Yank Magazine Articles
World War Two Articles: Japanese-American Internment
World War Two Articles: General Marshall
World War Two Articles: Weapons and Inventions
World War Two Articles: 1930s Military Buildup
World War Two Articles: Atomic Bomb
World War Two Articles: VJ Day
World War Two Articles: Kamikaze Attacks
World War Two Articles: Prisoners of War
World War Two Articles: Combat Training
World War Two Articles: D-Day
World War Two Articles: VE Day
World War Two Articles: VE Day
World War Two Articles: General Eisenhower
World War Two Articles: Paris
World War Two Articles: Home Front Articles
World War Two Articles: Aftermath
World War Two Articles: Post-War Japan
World War Two Articles: Fashion
World War Two Articles: Animals
World War Two Articles: Hollywood
World War Two Articles: Iwo Jima
World War Two Articles: Photographers
World War Two Articles: Japanese-American Service
World War Two Articles: Women
World War Two Articles: German Home Front


 

First Name:
Last Name:
 
© Copyright 2005 Old Magazine Articles
 
Buddies: Men, Dogs and World War II