1945/10/08 -- Cover photograph featuring General Robert Eichelberger is credited to the U.S. Navy

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK'S EVENTS:

  • The Tokyo Express to Hiroshima - Photographs by J.R. Eyerman
  • Editorial: Urgent Business
  • "Paddy" Devereux Greets His Father
  • The "Europa" Returns
  • Mass Murderess of Belsen - Woman leader of Nazi Guards
  • Baseball Season Ends in Argument

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • J. Arthur Rank by Francis Sill Wickware

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Waldorf-Astoria - 8 pages

    • RELIGION:

  • Jewish New Year in Berlin

    • THEATER:

  • Bambi Lynn of Brooklyn Dances on Broadway

    • ART:

  • The Pacific War - American Artists Record the Battles Across the Big Ocean

    • EDUCATION:

  • Educating Hitler Youth - Americans teaching them Democracy

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Fur Hats

    • MOVIES:

  • "The House on 92nd Street"

    • SCIENCE:

  • Texas Raises First U.S. Silk

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Frank Lloyd Wright 's New Art Museum
  • LIFE's Reports: How the World Didn't End by Claude Stanush
  • LIFE Goes to a Grape Crush
  • Miscellany: Corporal Rahaman's Pay
  • Full-page color ad for Pan-Cake Make-Up from Max Factor Hollywood features a large color image of Judy Garland promoting "The Harvey Girls"