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1942-02-23 Life Magazine Contents

1942/02/23 — Cover featuring “Guns for Merchantmen” is credited to George Strock

Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • An Era of Empire Ends at Singapore
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • U.S. Goes on War Time
  • U.S. Navy Raids Gilbert and Marshall Islands
  • Germans Impose Mass Death on Red Prisoners and Poles
  • “Normandie” Burns at Her New York Pier
  • A.E.F. Arrives in Ireland
  • …U.S. Troops Set Up Housekeeping by Mary Welsh

    • ARTICLE:

  • The First Japanese Mission to America by Yanagawa Masakiyo

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Broadway Theater Season with sections on MacBeth, Musical Comedies, and Porgy & Bess
  • Brooklyn Navy Yard

    • AVIATION:

  • Aerial Warfare Soars into the Stratosphere

    • ART:

  • Harry Wickey Sculptures Hell’s Kitchen

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Sears, Roebuck Shows Summer Styles at Ritz

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: LIFE’s Photo-Reporter Team Are Jap Prisoners
  • Roll of Honor
  • LIFE Goes Calling at Blenheim Palace
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: Full-page color ad for “Mr. Bug Goes to Town”, Four Roses Whiskey ad illustrated by John Falter, Rise Stevens for Columbia Records, Texaco ad with color illustration by Albert Dorne. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.