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1942-03-02 Life Magazine Contents

1942/03/02 — Cover featuring Ginger Rogers is credited to Bob Landry.

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
Now the U.S. Must Fight For Its Life

  • …Six Ways to Invade the U.S. — Pretty scary stuff featuring illustrations beginning with Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor and then the Japanese on Mt. Rainier, Japanese tank causing destruction on the streets of Southern California, Nazi planes bombing East Coast plants, a full page showing bombing of San Francisco highlighted by explosion of Golden Gate Bridge, and another full-page showing Germany destroying an East Coast Airport
  • …U.S. Raid on Jap Isles Shows Value of Offense
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Douglas Aircraft Workers Hear Production Pep Talk
  • Binghamton’s Salvage Collection Sets Example for Country
  • Military Strategy Starts Brawl of Saloon Patriots
  • Allied vs. Axis Navies
  • Farmers Learn How to Milk Cows in a Blackout

    • ARTICLES:

  • Rear Guard in Luzon by Captain John Wheeler, USA
  • Chaing Kai-Shek by Theodore H. White

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Ginger Rogers — 10 pages packed with photos leading off with a full-page color pic

    • SPORTS:

  • Cornelius Warmerdam Breaks World Pole-Vault Record

    • ART:

  • Fireman’s Art: British Exhibit Tours USA

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Americans Turn Pension Grab into Big Joke
  • Roll of Honor
  • LIFE Goes to An Army Party
  • Pictures to the Editors

    • Notable advertising includes: full-page ad for Carole Lombard and Jack Benny in To Be Or Not To Be with announcement beginning “We announce the presentation of Carol Lombard’s last picture”, Mimeograph duplicator ad with large illustration “Sergeant, USMC Reading Orders” by Norman Price, and a Lucky Strikes ad on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.