WWII LIFE Magazine October 5, 1942 Eye Catcher Hats, Lucille Ball Finds Stardom

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WWII LIFE Magazine October 5, 1942 Eye Catcher Hats, Lucille Ball Finds Stardom
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Life Magazine Cover
: Eye-catcher, Joan Thorsen with an unusual hat.
Super full page color Good Year ad with “World’s Fastest Tricycles” – an airplane with three wheels, an Air Cobra?
Nice full page color Winchester ad – “It’s Messerschmitts, not Mallards today, Bill!”
Red Army fights for Mother Russia.
Wendell Willkie writes of interview with Stalin.
Columnist Westbrook Pegler strips his auto bumpers for scrap.
Battle action in the Solomons.
American Legion opens ranks to veterans of WWII.
Armies that win by David Cort.
Photo essay – Nation’s leaders take hasty lunches in crowded capital.
Eye-catcher hats.
Night vision.
Armored force cartoons tell soldiers how to act if captured.
Amateur photographers can help US work out invasion plans.
Lucille Ball
wins first chance as big-time star.
New Experiments by Andreas Feininger – pictures.
Nebraska’s scrap campaign.
US Army Nurses in New Caledonia.
Very nice full page color Whitman’s chocolate sampler ad with military theme.
Amazing two page color Buick ad for gun shell casings, includes copy of Flint, Michigan newspaper.
Nice full page Niblets corn ad (same look as Green Giant ad in September 7, 1942).