February 2010
Bonus features
Find the articles these features relate to in the February 2010 issue of America in WWII, available at Borders and Barnes & Noble stores.
The Battle of Iwo Jima
Print Issue Tie-in: “Iwo Jima: Cheating Death on Sulfur Island”
Footage: To the Shores of Iwo Jima, Parts I and II
Thanks to heroic military cameramen, you can follow the US marines onto Iwo Jima in this 1945 Office of War Information film. Shown in two parts.
Photo Gallery: Iwo Jima Snapshots
Clearing ash-coated Iwo Jima of its grim Japanese defenders was a grind unlike anything US Marines had ever experienced before.
Pulp Fiction
Print Issue Tie-in: “Pulp Fiction”
Photo Gallery: Pulp fiction fantasy
Cheap, exciting, and fun to read, pulp fiction magazines were the ultimate escape from war’s hard times.
Photo Gallery: pulp fiction Goes to War
A sampler of World War II-era, military-themed pulp fiction magazine covers.
Fred Waring
and
the Pennsylvanians
Print Issue Tie-in: 78 RPM “The Master Blender”
Link: Fred Waring—Man, Music, and Machine
Photos, music, and film clips tell the amazing story of choir master and blender king Fred Waring on this lively Penn State site.
Stalag 17-B
Print Issue Tie-in: “A Yank in Stalin’s Army”
Article: Stalag 17-B
The German prison camp that inspired a movie and a TV comedy was a dingy, fleabag patch of hell for the Allied POWs who got stuck there.
