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The Making Of A GI: One Man’s Journey From Working Stiff To Man Of War (1942)

The Making Of A GI: One Man’s Journey From Working Stiff To Man Of War (1942)

In 1942, George Camblair of Washington, D.C. was moulded from a man about town into a man in the military. ...
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‘The Wednesday’ – and the Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly

‘The Wednesday’ – and the Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly

The band leader Ray Noble once said of Al Bowlly that he often stepped away from the microphone with tears in his eyes: “never mind him making you cry, he could make himself cry!” ...
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Women Workers at a Naval Air Base in Texas 1942

Women Workers at a Naval Air Base in Texas 1942

The US Farm Security Administration took these color photographs of women working in the Assembly and Repair Dept. of the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. ...
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Noël Coward Visits an Adelaide Koala Farm in 1940

Noël Coward Visits an Adelaide Koala Farm in 1940

Nobody in England has the faintest idea what the Australians are like, and when I do get back I am going to make it my business to tell them. They are simple and direct and friendly, and their feeling about England is so deep and touching... this really is being a wonderful experience. ...
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Bostonians Recycle Scrap Metal To Win The War (1942)

Bostonians Recycle Scrap Metal To Win The War (1942)

In 1942 Leslie Jones, a Staff photographer for the Boston Herald-Traveler took pictures of locals supporting the fight by collecting scrap metal, cloth, cooking fat, rubber and anything else that could help. ...
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Thomas Mann Explains Why Nazis Foment Anti-Semitism (1940)

Thomas Mann Explains Why Nazis Foment Anti-Semitism (1940)

Anti-Semitism "is nothing but a wrench to unscrew, bit by bit, the whole machinery of our civilization" ...
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A Child’s Life in Wales 1939-1962

A Child’s Life in Wales 1939-1962

What was it like being a child in Wales during the mid 20th Century? Let's see... ...
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Wonderful Colorized Portraits of Russian Fighters In World War 2

Wonderful Colorized Portraits of Russian Fighters In World War 2

Olga Shirnina's stirring colorized pictures of Russians in World War 2 make the past come alive ...
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Survivors of The Sinai Express : European Exiles In Egypt (1944)

Survivors of The Sinai Express : European Exiles In Egypt (1944)

Photographs of Croats who fled the Germans for the heat and dust of Egypt ...
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An Aid Worker’s Snapshots of the El Shatt Croatian Refugee Camp (1944-1946)

An Aid Worker’s Snapshots of the El Shatt Croatian Refugee Camp (1944-1946)

In 1944, Treva Edgerton, a worker with the UNRRA photographed life at the El Shatt refugee camp near the Suez Canal in Egypt ...
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Erwin Blumenfeld – A Free Soul Who Was In Love with Taking Pictures

Erwin Blumenfeld – A Free Soul Who Was In Love with Taking Pictures

“I was an amateur, I am an amateur, and I intend to stay an amateur. To me, an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.” ...
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The Paratrooper’s Selfies : Snapshots Whilst Falling to Earth in 1944

The Paratrooper’s Selfies : Snapshots Whilst Falling to Earth in 1944

In 1944, Picture Post photographer Haywood Magee boarded an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber at RAF Ringway, Cheshire, England. Already onboard were men of the 10th Battalion Parachute Regiment. As one paratrooper prepared to jump, Magee handed him a camera with the instructions to aim it at his face, don’t drop the thing, and click. ...
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