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LIFE

Front Cover
28 Sep 1942
132 pages
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

Life in a lifeboat
17
Lifeboats, life rafts, etc, World War, 1939-1945 (Personal narratives, Submarine operations)
Willkie sells U.S. victory to Middle East
29
Wendell Lewis Willkie; 1892-1944
What women can do: think war, buy little, maintain our ideals
32
World War, 1939-1945 (Women, United States)
U.S.S. Yorktown is sunk at sea
34
Midway, Battle of, 1942
Aleutians
36
Aleutian Islands (Alaska)
Foreign seamen
60
Seamen
In Arabian nights she does the dance of the single veil
69
Maria MONTEZ
Sister Kenny, Australian nurse, demonstrates her treatment for infantile paralysis
73
Elizabeth Kenny; 1886-1952, Poliomyelitis
Yankees win pennant early and quietly as National league rivals slug it out
78
Baseball
War scooters
85
Scooters

U.S. fighting men in Alaska
38
World War, 1939-1945 (Alaska)
WAFS woman
40
Harkness LOVE, United States Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron
Rubber man
41
William M. Jeffers; 1876-1953
Heavy bombers
45
Airplanes, Military (Great Britain)
Smith girls
53
Smith College, Women college students, Women (Occupations)
Wisconsin barn art
56
Frank ENGEBRETSON, Barns
China's flowers
88
Botany (China), Chrysanthemums
Aerial navigation guides U.S. planes on world's longest flights
92
Air navigation
Admiral Leahy
102
William D. Leahy; 1875-1959
Janie
119
Josephine Bentham, Herschel Williams
Sackcloth and ashes
132
Camouflage

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