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LIFE

Front Cover
15 Jun 1942
120 pages
Vol. 12, No. 24
ISSN 0024-3019
Published by Time Inc
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
  

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Contents

Frenchman foresaw mechanized war in 1883
12
Albert Robida; 1848-1926, Armaments, Forecasting
Bataan nurses
16
UNITED STATESArmy/Nurse corps, World War, 1939-1945 (Personal narratives, Philippines)
R.A.F. blasts at Germany's war industry
25
Great Britain Royal Air Force, World War, 1939-1945 (Aerial operations), Cologne (Germany)
Houston replaces Houston's losses
32
United States Navy (Recruiting, enlistment, etc), Houston (Tex.)
West Point hatches 374 new second lieutenants and helps marry off 25
34
United States Army (Officers), United States Military Academy
Portrait
44
Maurice FITZGERALD
Flame at work
52
Oxyacetyle flame
Paintings at Andover
58
Painting, American, PHILLIPS academy, Andover (Mass.)
Cagney as Cohan makes a big whiz-bang musical
64
George M. Cohan; 1878-1942
Yankee Doodle Dandy
64
Motion picture reviews (Single works)

Portrait
36
Sumner Welles (American diplomat.); 1892-1961
Memorial day brings hopes of a better post-war world
36
Reconstruction (1939-1951), World War, 1939-1945 (Strategy)
Portrait
37
Harold E. Stassen
California crops rot in fields and on the vine for want of farm labor
38
Agriculture (California), Farm labor
Portrait
41
T. V. Soong; 1894-1971
Portrait
42
Darryl F. Zanuck (American motion picture producer.); 1902-1979
Portrait
42
Bette Davis; 1908-1989
Portrait
44
Evelyn J. W. CASOLA
10,000 sub-debs do hard useful war work as juniors in AWVS.
73
Betty VAN RENSSELAER, AMERICAN Women's Voluntary Services
Negroes at war
83
UNITED STATESArmy/Negro troops
Lots more Negroes are needed in war plants
88
Blacks (Employment), Munitions
Harlem buzzes with civilian defense tasks
90
Civil defense, Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Burma mission
94
Joseph Warren Stilwell; 1883-1946, World War, 1939-1945 (Campaigns and battles, Myanmar, Personal narratives)
Aviator's farewell party
108
Air pilots, Entertaining
Recreation officers at Fort Meade learn dirty fighting technique
112
United States Army (Officers)

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