Can General Old’s “Eyes” Guard America’s Heartland? (Oct, 1952)
Can General Old’s “Eyes” Guard America’s Heartland? By JAMES JOSEPH Special from Anchorage, Alaska. Tonight the citizens of the American “heartland”—you Chicagoans and New Yorkers, the people of...
View ArticleAMONG THE RUSSIANS (Sep, 1915)
AMONG THE RUSSIANS A Russian Woman Soldier The girl in uniform to the right fought in several engagements before being detected and sent home. A Weapon Used Against Russia The Austrians found the...
View ArticleTELESCOPES FOR SHARPSHOOTERS (Sep, 1915)
TELESCOPES FOR SHARPSHOOTERS When Uncle Sam Was Right, and Europe Was All Wrong By EDWARD C. CROSSMAN AMONG the thousand and one things for which the Allies are “enclosing you check and order,” to...
View ArticleWRS VHFUHW! (May, 1950)
WRS VHFUHW! Experts insist that there is no such thing as an absolutely unbreakable code. Here’s how cryptanalysis, the science of breaking codes and ciphers, helped us to win two world wars. By...
View ArticleWhen The Army Moves Life Moves With It! (Jan, 1942)
When The Army Moves Life Moves With It! ANY proof you might need that Uncle Sam is developing a mobile army can be found in these pictures, taken on maneuvers. When the camp moves all the conveniences...
View ArticleNEW PT BOAT- Navy’s Baby Battleship (Aug, 1951)
NEW PT BOAT- Navy’s Baby Battleship THE Navy’s PT (patrol torpedo) boats created an unexpected niche for themselves in WWII. In the Pacific, they were used almost entirely as gunboats, doing much...
View ArticlePlankton- Blue Plate Special (Dec, 1941)
Plankton- Blue Plate Special Found! — A New Food From The Sea That May Mean The Difference Between Victory and Defeat For The Democracies. by Elon Jessup CARE for a dish of plankton? No? Well, you’d...
View ArticleROLL OUT THE: BURLAP! (Jun, 1945)
ROLL OUT THE: BURLAP! by Gilbert Paust, Mi’s Aviation Editor The “stamplicker” rolls out long strips of coated burlap to form the latest in synthetic airstrips, the U.S. Army’s “Hessian Mat.” A FACTOR...
View ArticleCAMERA STUDIES BY SELF-STYLED SONS OF HEAVEN (Aug, 1945)
Wow, this is just about the most grim camera ad I’ve ever seen. CAMERA STUDIES BY SELF-STYLED SONS OF HEAVEN “American prisoners carry their wounded in blankets on death march from Bataan. Practical...
View ArticleARSON UNDER THE SEAS (Jan, 1942)
ARSON UNDER THE SEAS U-boat warfare, a menace now, will become even more brutal with this flame-throwing sub! by Captain James Poole A NEW refinement—if that’s the word-on that deadly menace, the...
View Article25 Men Died to Film these War Movies! (May, 1929)
25 Men Died to Film these War Movies! ONE hundred motion picture cameramen, officially assigned by the imperial German government of the ex-kaiser to film German troops in action during the great war,...
View ArticleNavies of the Stratosphere Threaten Cities (Nov, 1934)
Navies of the Stratosphere Threaten Cities WARFARE, in the past hundred years or so, has been a contest between makers of guns and other offensive weapons, and makers of means of defense. As cannon...
View ArticleHow Europe’s Big Nations Match in Fighting Power (Jun, 1936)
How Europe’s Big Nations Match in Fighting Power If war should be declared today, Russia would have more men and more planes at her command than any other nation in Europe. The Soviet Republic boasts...
View ArticleMap projections speed SAC war-room display (Mar, 1963)
Map projections speed SAC war-room display Less than 30 seconds elapses between receipt of information and the time it is flashed on a vast screen where it can be studied by the battle staff in the...
View ArticleBattle of the Billions (Aug, 1941)
Battle of the Billions American Industry Mobilizes Machines, Materials, and Men for a Job as Big as Digging 40 Panama Canals in One Year By RAY MILLHOLLAND IT LOOKS like some outsider is continually...
View Article60 days to the front…every scrap of paper is needed! (Aug, 1945)
60 days to the front…every scrap of paper is needed! It takes about two months before your waste paper, reprocessed into cartons, arrives at the battle fronts carrying such essentials as blood plasma,...
View ArticleSOLDIERS SHOOT ANIMATED PICTURES (Oct, 1931)
SOLDIERS SHOOT ANIMATED PICTURES Animated paintings in steel picture frames are now being used to train British troops in marksmanship. Miniature soldiers, representing an enemy army, move along the...
View ArticleUnderground Nests for War Airplanes (Feb, 1936)
Underground Nests for War Airplanes THE next war, all agree, will be a war in the air; and the advantage will be with the force striking the first blow. Obviously, the attack will be made on the fixed...
View ArticleKitchen Catch-All / Swiss Radar Rocket (Feb, 1952)
Kitchen Catch-All / Swiss Radar Rocket MODERN apartments which seem to shrink in size constantly have created a demand for more compact furniture. One of the results of this demand is a cabinet...
View ArticleGRENADE FIRED FROM A RIFLE (Feb, 1909)
GRENADE FIRED FROM A RIFLE By WILLIAM T. WALSH PEKIN was fortified; the Boxers held the gates. Outside the walls of the city the allied legions clamored for admission, knowing that, within, the...
View ArticleMobile Pill-Box Fortress Mounts Two Six-Inch Guns (Nov, 1940)
How is this not a tank? Mobile Pill-Box Fortress Mounts Two Six-Inch Guns Pill boxes on wheels, armed with twin six-inch guns in revolving turrets, may prove a formidable new weapon for U.S. defense....
View ArticleKeeps Air-Raid Map Under His Hat (Apr, 1940)
Keeps Air-Raid Map Under His Hat Although not quite so good as a steel helmet, the black derby hat owned by an Englishman living on the east coast is a handy headpiece to have along in the event of an...
View ArticleHow to Know Your Guided Missiles (Mar, 1950)
How to Know Your Guided Missiles U.S. GUIDED missiles have been given a new designation scheme by the Research and Development Board. With this system the RDB indicated the development of two...
View ArticleInvisible Rays in Blackout Plant Make Dials Glow (Aug, 1941)
It’s odd how dispassionate this article is considering it’s about Germany and WWII is in full swing although it’s four months before the U.S. enters. Once we joined the war you’d expect to read about...
View ArticleOne-Man Antitank Missile (Jul, 1962)
One-Man Antitank Missile Compact enough for the ordinary infantryman to carry into battle on his back, an antitank-missile system is simple enough for a nonspecialist to operate and powerful enough to...
View ArticleEnough Bread for an Army (Jun, 1950)
Enough Bread for an Army FRESH BREAD daily for 96,000 soldiers, more than double the old equipment’s capacity, is turned out by the new mobile bakeries developed by the Army’s Quartermaster Corps....
View ArticleHOW YOU LOOK TO THE JAPS (May, 1942)
Considering that this was published just a few months after Pearl Harbor it seems amazingly mild and reasonable. HOW YOU LOOK TO THE JAPS DO YOU believe that the Japanese launched their attack as a...
View ArticleKnow Your War Planes (Jan, 1942)
Know Your War Planes The engines push instead of pull— Three wheels for short alighting; Two cannon and machine guns too, Keep Airacuda fighting! A thousand horses and some more— A long and slender...
View ArticleHOW TO HIT A SUPERSONIC MISSILE in flight? (Jul, 1954)
I’m not certain, but I’d guess that if the question is “How do you shoot down a missile going 1,200 miles per hour with a gun, in 1954?” the answer is: you don’t. HOW TO HIT A SUPERSONIC MISSILE in...
View ArticleSuper War Tanks (Sep, 1936)
Super War Tanks Light tank has been so modified that it becomes a land dread-naught, many times as destructive as the ordinary tank. WHEN tanks are used in trench warfare, the infantry advances behind...
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