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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...
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AMONG 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...
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TELESCOPES 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...
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WRS 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...
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When 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...
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NEW 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...
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Plankton- 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...
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ROLL 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...
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CAMERA 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...
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ARSON 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...
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25 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,...
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Navies 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...
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How 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...
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Map 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...
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Battle 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...
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60 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,...
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SOLDIERS 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...
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Underground 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...
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Kitchen 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...
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GRENADE 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...
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