Life, May 21, 1945
Either that or Chelsea won.
Life, April 30, 1945
Flicks of flying fortresses swarmed toward the Continent on June 6 from southern and eastern England. This pleasant part of Britain bore greatest concentration of airfields—hundreds of fields covering hundreds of thousands of acres.
Life, April 30, 1945
England’s airfields and the skies above them were filed with American planes on D-day, June 6, 1944 when Ogden Pleissner, who did the paintings on this page, found this Thunderbolt ground crew cleaning its guns on a steel mat runway.
Life, April 30, 1945
In London’s east end war is a way of life to the children whose games are the more exciting for the broken walls and the little bomb shelters. When American GI’s and English children meet it is a race to which of the two will first say “Any gum, chum?”
Life, July 24, 1944
Note the picture still hanging on the wall, askew.
Life, July 24, 1944
Hard to look at this without thinking of 7/7.
Strange how the passage of time can change a static image.
Wartime America via its magazines.