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1939-09-18 Life Magazine Contents

1939/09/18 — Cover photograph featuring “Britain Goes to War” is credited to the AP

Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WAR:

  • Germans Beat British-French in First Week of Propaganda
  • Major Eliot Reports on the Polish Campaign
  • German Tanks Push Poles 150 Miles in Seven Days
  • French vs. The Westwall
  • Generals Gamelin and Gort Lead Allies to War
  • The Western Front
  • Sinking of the “Athenia”
  • American Neutrality – Legion Commander Says Stay Out of War
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Submarines – Germany’s Commerce Raiders Resemble U.S. Navy’s “R 14”

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • The Week the War Began – A Retrospective Close-Up

    • SCIENCE:

  • Beltsville – Research Center Helps Farmers Grow Food for World at War
  • Germans Live Substitute Lives

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Postilion Hat is Season’s Dark Horse
  • Girls Legs on Campus Go Scottish
  • Sidney Waugh Designs America’s Finest Modern Glass

    • MOVIE:

  • Gloria Jean Makes Good as “Second Deanna Durbin”

    • SPORTS:

  • Ted Allen Wins Horseshoe Meet
  • Girls Shoot in National Target Matches

    • ART:

  • London Moves Its Art Teasures From Range of Enemy Bombers

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Air-Raid Shelters
  • LIFE’s Calls on Winston Churchill
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Pink-toned full page ad for “Dust Be My Destiny” with image of John Garfield and Priscilla Lane