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1944-09-11 Life Magazine Contents

1944/09/11 — Cover photograph featuring “Nazi Prisoners” is credited to INP Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Paris Is Free Again Dewey’s Pawling ARTICLES: The Hump by Theodore White Russian Visit by Eric Johnston PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: P.A.C. SPORTS: Tam O’Shanter THEATER: Dark of the Moon SCIENCE: Dutch Elm Disease RADIO: The [...]

1944-09-04 Life Magazine Contents

1944/09/04 — Cover photograph featuring Cordell Hull is credited to Yousuf Karsh Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The French Get Back Their Freedom The Girl Partisan of Chartres by Jack Beldon Revolutionary History of Paris Editorial: Paris New York Celebrates Premature Fall of Paris Which Are the Prettiest? Dumbarton Oaks [...]

1944-08-21 Life Magazine Contents

1944/08/21 — Cover photograph featuring Amphibious Tractors is by John Florea Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Refugees Arrive from Europe Editorial: The Education of Sidney Hillman McNair Family Portrait Argentina Shows Army The Battle of France: Paris St. Lo Franch Traitor ARTICLE: Radioman Tweed on Guam by Robert Sherrod CLOSE-UP: [...]

1944-08-14 Life Magazine Contents

1944/08/14 — Cover photograph featuring “In Normandy” is by Robert Landry Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Break-through in France Editorial: War and Civil Liberties German Prisoner Burlesques Hitler Dewey Starts Campaign G.O.P. Governors P.A.C. Victories Marshal Tito The Fall of Esperia ARTICLE: The Future of France by William C. Bullitt [...]

1944-08-07 Life Magazine Contents August 7 1944

1944/08/07 — Cover photograph featuring Geraldine Fitzgerald is credited to Philippe Halsman Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Battle of the Hedgerows – New U.S. Offensive in Normandy Editorial: World ‘Realism’ 1944 First Negro Votes in Texas Democratic Primary Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Buried – 2 pages Explosion in Germany – An [...]

1944-07-17 Life Magazine Contents July 17 1944

1944/07/17 — Cover photograph featuring Peasant Clothes in Fashion is credited to Nina Leen Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Task Force 58 by Noel F. Busch Editorial: Three Russians Washington Welcomes De Gaulle World Money-Men Confer Fire Destroys the Big Top Corsicans Punish Traitorous Women ARTICLE: Japanese Beetle by Anthony [...]

1944-07-03 Life Magazine Contents

1944/07/03 — Cover photograph featuring Back From the Front – U.S. Army Signal Corps Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: War Comes to the People of Normandy Editorial: We Seek Liberty Taps: Normandy – June 1944 Utah Jails 15 “Fundamentalists” Republican Convention Opens Holiness Faith Healers Gestapo in Rome CLOSE-UP: Joe [...]

1944-06-19 Life Magazine Contents

1944/06/19 — Cover photograph featuring General Dwight D. Eisenhower is credited to the U.S. Army Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Landings in Normandy – The Fateful Battle for Europe Is Joined by Sea and Air – 13 pages of mostly photos plus text, maps …The Big Days by Charles Christian [...]

1944-06-12 Life Magazine Contents

1944/06/12 — Cover photograph featuring “Invasion by Air” is by U.S. Army Air Force Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Invasion – Coverage of June 6, 1944 D-Day Invasion, Includes 2 huge 2-page illustrations of the air attack, another 2-page spread containing 6 more illustrations of the air attack, 2-page photo [...]

1944-06-05 Life Magazine Contents

1944/06/05 — Cover photograph featuring U.S. Infantrymen is credited to the U.S. Army Signal Corps Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Ruins of Cassino Editorial: Power vs. Conscience – A Spokesman of the One is Churchill, of the Other Senator LaFollette. We Need Both. Death of the Communist Party in [...]

1944-05-29 Life Magazine Contents

1944/05/29 — Cover photograph featuring General Carl Tooey Spaatz is credited to Graphic Photo Union Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Invasion Prelude in Italy Editorial: Our Friendship With Britain Roosevelt Returns 5,000th Fortress Ponape Shelling Submarine Rescue at Truk Atlantic Wall U.S. Soldiers in Hyde Park ARTICLE: Three Airmen by [...]

1944-05-22 Life Magazine Contents

1944/05/22 — Cover featuring “Model Mother” is credited to Nina Leen Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Allies Advance in New Guinea Editorial: Advice to the Republicans Pacific Theater Souvenir The British Commonwealth Explosion in India Four Poems on the Eve of Invasion by Joseph Auslander Garden Party in Washington [...]

1944-05-15 Life Magazine Contents

1944/05/15 — Cover photograph featuring General Montgomery is credited to George Rodger Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: American Invaders in England Editorial: Friends of the Wounded Wounded Veteran of Anzio Washington Buries Secretary Knox Voting in the South ARTICLES: The “Monty” Legend by Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr. about General Douglass [...]

1944-05-08 Life Magazine Contents

1944/05/08 — Cover photograph featuring Hattie Carnegie Suit in Fashion is credited to Philippe Halsman Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Biggest Navy Editorial: Avery vs. U.S. The Allies Talk Wedding in Cuba Betty Grable’s Baby Dieppe Invasion Lesson First Good Pictures of Argentine Quints ARTICLE: Europe’s Children Are Hungry [...]

1944-04-24 Life Magazine Contents

1944/04/24 — Cover photograph featuring Princess Elizabeth is credited to Yousuf Karsh Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Trouble in Burma Editorial: Negro Rights Lemons and Oranges at St. Clement’s Palau Dover Cave Dwellers Broadway Varga Girl Princess Elizabeth is 18 CLOSE-UP: California’s Warren Family by Robert Coughlan about Earl Warren [...]

1944-04-10 Life Magazine Contents

1944/04/10 — Cover photograph featuring British Air Marshall Arthur T. Harris is credited to Combine Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: They Stopped Us at Cassino War in Burma Editorial: The Easter Message Royal Wedding in London Daladier in Prison Argentine Quintuplets ARTICLE: The Airmen and the Invasion by Charles J.V. [...]

1944-03-27 Life Magazine Contents

1944/03/27 — Cover photograph featuring “Landing Craft, Infantry” is by George Rodger Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Republican Senate Caucus Editorial: American Foreign Policy Vichy Collaborationist Condemned for Treason “Berlin First” Berlin Destruction Map-reading Glamorized – Using Betty Grable to plot out maps Return of the “Gripsholm” ARTICLES: “LCI 226″ [...]

1944-03-20 Life Magazine Contents

1944/03/20 — Cover photograph featuring Ballerina Nana Gollner is by Ralph Crane Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Tule Lake Segregation Center – At This Segregation Center are 18,000 Japanese Considered Disloyal to U.S. – 11 pages Editorial: Beard’s Republic Elyse Knox Tries on Tommy Harmon’s Parachute for Size The Last [...]

1944-03-06 Life Magazine Contents

1944/03/06 — Cover photograph featuring Admiral Chester Nimitz is by Robert Landry Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Pre-invasion: America Stockpiles Armaments in England Editorial: America’s Interest in Europe–Peace Wide-awake Birds and U.S. Air Force Senate Blow-off Bombing of the Abbey of Monte Cassino Nimitz Navy: Central Pacific Advance Death in [...]

1944-02-28 Life Magazine Contents

1944/02/28 — Cover photograph featuring Ella Raines is credited to Walter Sanders Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Lincoln Day Editorial: World Oil and World Politics Chaplin Is Fingerprinted Typhus in Naples Bombing of Berlin Yugoslav Children in Egypt ARTICLE: A Chapter from “The Republic” by Charles A. Beard CLOSE-UP: Louis [...]

1944-02-14 Life Magazine Contents

1944/02/14 — Cover photograph featuring “Wall of Fame” facade of Earl Carroll Theater is credited to Ralph Crane Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: War in Italy Editorial: The Kremlin and the Vatican Squanderbug in Redhill, England Lucille Ball at the President’s Ball – 1 page with 4 photos William Allen [...]

1944-01-31 Life Magazine Contents

1944/01/31 — Cover photograph featuring British Air Chief Marshall Sir Arthur Tedder is credited to Eliot Elisofon Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: It’s a Tough War – Photos by Robert Capa Editorial: Russian Relations “The Hitler Gang” – Photo of actors in the film Bolivian Revolution Congressional Committees at Work [...]

1944-01-17 Life Magazine Contents

1944/01/17 — Cover featuring Historian Charles Beard is credited to Walter Sanders Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Fascist Indictments and “Peace Now” – U.S. Indicts Its Top Two Fascists: Lawrence Dennis and Joe McWilliams Editorial Citation of ” Siwash” the Marine Duck Jap Bomber Falls OPA Party Air Forces Report [...]

1943-12-13 Life Magazine Contents

1943/12/13 — Cover featuring Chinese Muslim is credited to William Vandivert Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Fight for Tarawa Editorial: Pacific Plans includes full page map of the Pacific titled “Death Sentence of an Empire” Whiskey Shortage from Coast to Coast Rare White Cocker Spaniel is Born in California Axis [...]

1943-12-06 Life Magazine Contents

1943/12/06 — Cover photograph featuring Earmuffs in Fashion is credited to Walter Sanders Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Sinkiang, Heart of Asia Eitorial: Tarawa – The Marines Win New Glory in the Gilberts and Prove There Is No Cheap Way to Victory Irving Berlin and Noel Coward in London Opening [...]