WWII LIFE Magazine November 30, 1942 18 Year Old Bob Berger, US Navy Victory

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WWII LIFE Magazine November 30, 1942 18 Year Old Bob Berger, US Navy Victory
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: 18-year-old, Bob Berger, about to leave college and go to war.
Full page color Western Electric communications ad with wartime theme.
US Naval victory in the Solomons.
Americans close in on Japs in New Guinea.
First pictures of American Landings in North Africa.
Full page Pepperell fabrics ad with art by Harvey …? with jungle solider in mosquito head nets.
Photo – Two Stalingrad women emerge with possessions from underground home, cellar of bombed house.
Western congressmen fight national gas rationing as US buys up tires.
Allied gains in Africa end Siege of Malta.
Girls’ pictures bring luck to Armed Forces – includes several of Rita Weinberg and Bernard Kessel and others.
Close-up – Major General Patton.
Photo essay – new Army recruits.
Coffee rationing becomes effective in US, tips on how to stretch coffee.
Air transport becomes a wartime reality – this is a major feature about all kinds of planes and all parts of air transportation.
Age regression – adults exhibit childhood antics under hypnosis.
A Soviet Embassy reception.
Focus on Robert Lyle Berger of Nebraska City, Nebraska as a typical 18 year-old.
Full page Talon zipper ad showing how zippers are used in new military gear.
Full page Dr. Pepper soda ad.
Full page color Camel cigarettes ad with fliers reading a map and cartography Charlotte Thon.