August 2010
Bonus Features
Find the articles these features relate to in the August 2010 issue of America in WWII, available at Borders and Barnes & Noble stores.
Photo gallery: Victory mania!
Americans cut loose around the world as they learn of Japan’s surrender and start the countdown to a new life and a brighter future.
Footage: The big, mighty B-29
Pull down the blackout shades and watch the artful wartime propaganda film Birth of the B-29. You’ll be in 1945 faster than you can decipher MCMXLV!
Article: Lucky Louie
Captured by the Japanese, Olympic-athlete-turned-bombardier Louie Zamperini made up his mind: he was going to survive his captors’ cruelty.
Documents: Secret psywar reports (PDF)
Peek at the secret research of a US Army unit that made psychological warfare pamphlets to be dropped on Japanese soldiers and civilians.
Link: Kamikaze skies
The US Fast Carrier Task Force battled Japanese kamikazes off Okinawa in spring 1945. Follow the fiery action on this page from the USS Astoria (CL-90) website.
Footage: The surrender is signed
This United News newsreel puts you aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, as a witness to Japan’s official surrender.
