The Führer’s Tub
Journalist Lee Miller, covering WW II for Vogue, had teamed up with photographer David E. Scherman of LIFE Magazine on numerous assignments during the war. Above, Scherman captures Miller in the bathtub…
The Gooney Bird
The C-47 "Skytrain" (known to the Brits as the "Dakota"), the military transport variant of the Douglas DC-3, a civilian airliner, was used extensively by the Allies in World War…
Points
After the cessation of hostilities, each man totaled up their "points" to see how close they were to being discharged and going home. This handy table was published in The…
The Captured Flag
On V-E Day, 8 May 1945, in Unter Biberg, Germany (a suburb of Munich), 59 members of the 225th signed a captured Nazi flag. It was not only a proud…
Deadly Doodlebug
Members of the U.S. Navy 2nd Beach Battalion examine several captured radio-controlled German Goliath remote-controlled mines (aka “Beetles” or "Doodlebugs") to see what makes them tick, Utah Beach, 11 June…
For The Boys
During WWII, actress Hattie McDaniel (right) served as chairman of the Negro Division of the Hollywood Victory Committee, providing entertainment for Black servicemen stationed at stateside military bases. Fellow actress…
Bloody Iwo
Two U.S. Marines lie where they fell on Iwo Jima, among the first victims of Japanese gunfire in the early hours of the American assault on the strategic Japanese volcanic…
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
BY RANDALL JARRELL Ball turret gunner Richard O. Getty checks out his turret - dubbed "Ball of Fire" - in the belly of his B-17 Flying Fortress ("Ruthie I"), England,…
Carentan O Carentan
BY LOUIS SIMPSON Trees in the old days used to standAnd shape a shady laneWhere lovers wandered hand in handWho came from Carentan. This was the shining green canalWhere we…
Sad Reminder
Two Marines killed in action on Enogi, New Georgia Island, rest under simple wooden crosses, reminding us all of the cost of freedom. Someone has taken the time to render…