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1945-06-18 Life Magazine Contents

1945/06/18 — Cover featuring Girl Scouts in Washington DC is credited to Alfred Eisenstaedt.

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

  • Americans Battle for Okinawa
  • 24 Hours in the Life of a Foot Soldier by W. Eugene Smith
  • Editorial: On Burying and Unburying
  • Naval Academy Graduate is Kissed
  • Red Europe
  • B-29 Raids Grow Bigger
  • First Lady has Trouble Christening Plane
  • “Gertie the Great” Hatches Her Eggs on Milwaukee Bridge

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Bing, Inc. by Lincoln Barnett is, of course, about Bing Crosby

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • US Congress

    • SCIENCE:

  • Optical Ring Sight

    • MOVIES:

  • “Blood on the Sun” with James Cagney

    • ANIMALS:

  • Milk Goats (with Carl Sandberg)

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Summer Bareness

    • AVIATION:

  • President’s Plane

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Glamour on Guam
  • LIFE Goes to a Surrealist Party
  • Miscellany: Pisa’s Leaning Tower

    • Notable advertising includes: a war-themed Studebaker ad with a war plane on the inside front cover, Flit bug-killer ad with Dr. Seuss illustration*, “A Thousand and One Nights” with Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers & Adele Jergens, “Good Business” by Edgar A. Guest for General Motors, Good Year ad with color illustration by Prins, 2-page Buick ad with color illustration of war plane, color ad for A&P Supermarkets, Morton Gould for Columbia Records, Fred MacMurray, June Haver and Joan Leslie in “Where Do We Go From Here?”, Arthur Fielder for RCA Victor, Adolphe Menjou for Blackstone Cigar*, and a Lucky Strikes ad on the back cover. NOTE: An * denotes ad is smaller than a full-page.