1942/12/07 -- Cover photograph featuring Marine Ace Captain John L. Smith is credited to Nelson Morris

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK'S EVENTS:

  • The Allies Launch World Offensive
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Lily Pons Carries Fighting French Flag in "Daughter of the Regiment"
  • Captain Rickenbacker and Crew Recuperate on Pacific Isle
  • The Boston Holocaust
  • Prison War Workers Build Ships & Produce War Goods
  • Deaf People Sing National Anthem at Victory Dance

    • ARTICLES:

  • Report from Tokyo by Joseph C. Grew
  • Captain Smith and HIs Fighting 223 by Richard Wilcox

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • War Metals

    • MOVIES:

  • Preston Sturges' "Palm Beach Story" starring Claudette Colbert

    • NAVY:

  • Torpedo Bomber Planes Are Scourge of Ships

    • NIGHT CLUB:

  • Copacabana Girls Are Among Broadway's Loveliest (includes Lucille Bremer)

    • ART:

  • Edward Laning Paints Santa Fe Railway at War

    • BOOKS:

  • "New Yorker" Arts Fills New Cartoon Albums - Includes 2 pages each of reproductions of Gluyas Williams and Charles Addams cartoons
  • PRESS:
  • LIFE Presents the Great OWI Picture Pulp Plot

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: British Strip-Tease Tells How to Save Fuel
  • LIFE's Reports: Fighting Day at an Airdrome by Roy Alexander
  • LIFE Visits the Gould Mansion
  • Pictures to the Editors