Life Magazine, Dec 1 1941 and Onwards. Things that strike me Odd or Interesting

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Journalists have always pushed their luck and did cross a few lines during WWII - it's just back in the 1940's, the Government was more "hands on" when it came to dealing with censorship those who broke the rules.
 
LIFE: 1 May 1944. The title of the article is "Air Group Nine Comes Home". They come home after almost a year of combat. The first flyer they showcase is PHILIP H. TORREY, JR., CDR, USN. The first photo shows him running up the stairs of his home and the second photo shows him in the living room surrounding by his wife and two children, age 2 and 4. A Google search shows he was KIA over Tokyo nine months later.
 
 
Thumpalumpacus said:
They weren't so fearful to have already sent Kido Butai on its mission. Clearly Kurusa wasn't in the loop ... or he was disambiguating.

I personally believe the former.
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It is pretty clear from historical Japanese documentation that Ambassador Kurusu not only was NOT informed of the planned attack date, but he was not even given specific warning of possible military action until his aides decoded the final message the morning of 7 Dec. 1941.

Even then nothing was clearly stated (the last part, received that morning by the Japanese embassy, simply declared "negotiations are useless, and are now ended"), but the language, and the instruction "deliver before xxx time' was (to a diplomat) obviously an indicator of the commencement of military operations.
 
May 14 1945.....spoiler alert.....we won in Europe. Gonna keep reading until the end of the war crimes trials. Learned a lot about what was fed to the American people and how accurate it was at the time. LIFE would not survive in a world of the PC. Also learned how I could retire on 120$ a month
 
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