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1945-08-20 Life Magazine Contents

1945/08/20 — Cover photograph featuring General Carl “Tooey” Spaatz is credited to Thomas D. McAvoy

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

  • The War’s Ending
  • Atom Bombs Obliterate Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • B-29s Almost Finish Job
  • Editorial: The Atomic Age
  • Refueling at Sea Revealed as Nimitz’ Secret Weapon
  • Truman Reports to Nation, Meets With Cabinet
  • Russia Joins the War on Japan
  • Surrender Offer Touches Off Victory Celebrations Around the World
  • U.S. Paid Heavy Price to Win Pacific War
  • The Japanese Emperor Is Japan
  • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Atomic Bomb – Its First Explosion Opens New Era
  • Manhattan Project by Francis Sill Wickware
  • SCIENCE:

  • Radar, Another of the War’s Great Secret Weapons, Is Revealed
  • ECONOMICS:

  • Inflation Is Chinese Tragedy
  • CLOSE-UP:

  • Princess Elizabeth by William W. White
  • MOVIES:

  • “Captain Eddie”
  • SUMMER THEATER:

  • “Candida”
  • EDUCATION:

  • Chattanooga Students Learn to Live in Aviation Age
  • MODERN LIVING:

  • Furrier Fox
  • SPORTS:

  • Rhine Regatta
  • ART:

  • Max Weber by Winthrop Sargeant
  • MUSIC:

  • Louis Prima Becomes New Teen-Age Favorite
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Some Leaders of the Pacific Victory
  • LIFE’s Reports: The Atom Bomb and Future War by Hanson W. Baldwin
  • LIFE Goes House-Fixing
  • LIFE’s Miscellany: Love at Laguna Beach
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