WWII – Pennsylvania Railroad Troop Train Ad
World War II Pennsylvania Railroad Troop Train Ad. These boys know what it means – the troop train is approaching the troop ships.
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Lockheed P-38 Ad – Be proud, America
Be Proud, America – Lockheed P-38 Ad: Be proud of your flying warriors, America! They’re fighting… as have Americans of every generation… for the freedom of man.
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“No broader than a Pilot’s Shoulders”
“No broader than a Pilot’s Shoulders” : That’s an important specification for an airplane engine, when you want every mile of speed you can get from a military fighter plane.
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Relying upon Winchester is an Old American Custom: WWII Winchester Rifle Ad
WWII Winchester M1 Carbine Rifle Ad: Down from the skies come U.S. Paratroops. A new American fighting force in this war, it is natural they should need a new firearm.
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World War II Today: October 19
1939 Germany officially incorporates western Poland into the Reich. 1940 Convoy HX-79 (49 ships), sailing from Halifax in Canada to Britain, is attacked by 5 U-boats between the 19th and 20th October in the North Atlantic. The British lost 12 ships for 75,063 gross tons, while not a single U-boat was lost. The destroyer Venetia sinks
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Esther Williams – YANK Pin-up Girl Oct. 1945
Born in Los Angeles, California, on August 8, 1921. Sometimes called “America’s Mermaid,” Esther Williams helped popularize synchronized swimming through a string of hugely popular films in the 1940s and 1950s.
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World War II Today: October 18
1939 The Russians prepare to hand over 30,000 Polish soldiers and refugees to the Nazis who respond with their own prisoner exchange. The first Jewish ghetto is established in Lublin. 1940 Britain reopens the Burma road, which had been closed for three months on the condition of progress being made towards peace between Japan and
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World War II Today: October 17
1939 French troops are pushed back in the Saar region. President Roosevelt prepares to sign an executive order closing all U.S. ports to submarines from belligerent nations. 1941 Destroyer USS Kearny damaged by German torpedo off Iceland;11 Americans are killed. US House of Representatives allow merchantmen to be armed. Taganrog on the Sea of Azov
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WWII Color Photos: Kodachrome Photographs – OWI
WWII Color Kodachrome pictures from the Office of War Information (OWI). These photographs were taken between September 1940 and April 1943. September 1940. Jack Whinery, Pie Town, New Mexico, homesteader, with his wife and the youngest of his five children in their dirt-floor dugout home. Whinery homesteaded with no cash less than a year ago
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World War II Today: October 16
1939 A German air attack damages the British cruisers HMS Southampton, HMS Edinburgh and the destroyer HMS Mohawk in the Firth of Forth, in Scotland. Heavy German attack on Western Front halted. German bombers attack Forth and Rosyth bridges. 1940 Benjamin O. Davis becomes the U.S. Army’s first African American Brigadier General. U-124 torpedoes and
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