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.

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.

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.

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.

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.