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THE LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS, Penn., Aug. 14, 1945  

* World War II ends
* Japanese surrenders
* Nice for display

A very dramatic & displayable "Extra" issue announcing the end of World War II, with a large: " PEACE ! " above the masthead within which are photos of the war, and banner headlines: "THE WAR IS OVER!" "Japanese Accept Allied Terms" and more with image of MacArthur. More inside 
Twelve pages, some wear and a little separation at the folds with minor text loss, a little staining, still a great…

THE STARS AND STRIPES, Mediterranean Edition, January 1, 1945

* Battle of the Bulge 
* World War II - WWII

The front page has a two column heading: "U.S. Troops Seize Vital Town At Tip Of German Salient" (see images) Nice to have in this famous military publication.
Other World War II news of the day. Complete in 8 pages, a little spine wear, nice condition.

Background: In January 1945, the Saar Region—a heavily industrialized area along the German-French border—was the scene of major Allied…

FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Mass, Nov. 8, 1944 

* Franklin D. Roosevelt - FDR
* 4th presidential election victory

The banner headline proclaims: "ROOSEVELT SWEEPS NATION" with subheads, electoral map and photo. (see images) Nice for display. This was his 4th presidential election victory, a later change in the Constitution would make this an unprecedented event.
Complete with 14 pages, light toning at the margins, irregular along the spine, generally nice.
 

THE NEW YORK TIMES, August 15, 1944 

* Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. killed
* United States Navy lieutenant
* John F. Kennedy JFK's older brother
* World War II - WWII  

Page 18 has one column headings: "SON OF J. P. KENNEDY KILLED IN ACTION" "Navy Reports Loss of Flier in Plane Explosion in European Theatre" with photo of Kennedy. (see) Always nice to have notable events in history reported in this World famous publication.
Complete with all 30 pages, rag edition in very nice condition.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 11, 1944 

* Pearl Harbor - Pacific Strategy Conference 
* FDR - Douglas MacArthur - Chester W. Nimitz

The front page has a nice banner headline: "PRESIDENT MET M'ARTHUR AND NIMITZ IN HAWAII" with subheads and photo. (see images) More on page 3 with two more related photos and text of FDR's remarks. 
Complete with all 28 pages, rag edition in great condition.

Background: The conclusion of the Pearl Harbor Conference on July 29, 1944, stands out as a uniquely rare moment in…

PM's WEEKLY, December 7, 1941 

* Dated on the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor

The front page has a heading that reads: "Vichy Backs Japan Against U.S.A." with coverage on page 3. (see images) Nice to have a publication with the "Dec. 7th" date and having a front page heading regarding the tensions between the United States and Japan.  
Complete with all 32 pages, tabloid size, good condition.

Background: This December 7, 1941 edition of the short-lived, anti-fascist New York tabloid PM—renowned…

THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 8, 1942 

* Battle of the Coral Sea is on
* Imperial Japanese verses U.S. Navy
* USS Lexington & Yorktown fame 
* Pacific Ocean theater - aircraft carriers

The front page has a nice banner headline: "GREAT NAVAL AND AIR BATTLE RAGES IN PACIFIC" with subheads and related map. (see images) 
Complete with all 42 pages, rag edition in great condition.

Background: On May 9, 1942, both the United States and Japan issued claims about the outcome of the Battle of the Coral Sea that…

NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, Aug. 28, 1941 

* United States & Japan tensions 
* Pacific War becoming imminent ?

The front page has a banner headline: "ROOSEVELT JOINS PARLEY AS JAPAN CRISIS NEARS" with subheads. (see images) Nice for display. 
Complete with all 30 pages, light toning and a little wear at he margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally in good condition.

Background: What makes the August 28, 1941 meeting between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Japanese Ambassador…

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, October 7, 1939

* Adolf Hitler's Reichstag speech
* Asks the World for peace ? (ruse)

The front page has a nice banner headline: "HITLER PUSHES PEACE OFFER" with subheads. (see images) Lengthy text continues on page 2 with related map. 
Complete Sunday edition with 60+ pages, rag edition in very nice condition. A few small binding holes along the spine.

Background: The international press coverage around October 8, 1939, regarding Adolf Hitler's "peace offer" is historically…

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., June 8, 1942

* Battle Of Midway ends w/ win
* Japanese vs. American Navy
* World war II original - WWII

The top of the front page has a five column headline: "U. S. - JAP SEA BATTLES GOING ON IN ALASKAN AREA AS WELL AS WEST OF MIDWAY, KING REVEALS" with subheads. Also on the front page is a two column heading: "Midway Battle Blunts Jap Power, Does Not End It" with subhead. (see images) 
Complete with 18 pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, generally…

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 29, 1941 

* H. R. Knickerbocker's upcoming book release advertisement

The back page has a large advertisement for the upcoming release of H.R. Knickerbocker's book titled: "Is Tomorrow Hitler's 200 Questions on the Battle of Mankind" with a image of Hitler. (see images) 
Complete with all 36 pages, a little spine wear, very nice condition. 

Background: This August 29, 1941 edition of The New York Times is a striking artifact of pre-WWII interventionist media, featuring a…

MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY TRIBUNE, Feb. 7, 1943 

* General Dwight D. Eisenhower named supreme commander
* Mediterranean Theater of Operations - North Africa campaign 

The front page has a five column heading: "Eisenhower Named Commander of North African War Theater" with subheads and photo of Ike. (see images)
Complete 1st section only with all 20 pages, light toning at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally in good condition.

Background: In February 1943, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s…

THE SPRINGFIELD SUNDAY REPUBLICAN, Mass., April 23, 1944

* Pittsburgh Steelers & Chicago Cardinals merger
* "Card-Pitt" (Car-Pitts) - NFL football - World War II era

The front page of the sport's section has a two column heading: "Steelers and Cardinals To Merge for '44 Season" (see images) 
Complete with 30+ pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, generally in good condition.

Background: To officially merge for the 1944 season amid severe World War II player shortages, the Pittsburgh…

THE NEW YORK TIMES, December 10, 1944 

* General George S. Patton 
* World War II - WWII
* Battle of the Bulge prelude

The top of the front page has a five column headline: "3D ARMY DRIVES NORTH FOR SAAR AFTER JUNCTION OF TWO DIVISIONS" with subheads that include: "MAGINOT LINE CUT" and more with related map headed: "Patton's Men Hammer Out New Gains In Saar". Related photo on page 3. See photos for partial coverage of Patton's movements within a week prior to the Battle of the Bulge.
Other news,…

SECTION 2 only of the New York Times, December 10, 1944

* Christmas appeal 
* Several case examples
* Winter time poverty
* World War II era 

The front page of this section has a banner headline: "NEW YORK'S 100 NEEDIEST CASES" with related illustration. (see images) Lengthy text with many cases continues on the following pages with two more related illustrations. Nice for display.
Other topics throughout. Complete section 2 only with all 14 pages, rag edition in very nice condition.

Background: The…

NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, September 7, 1939 

* Blitzkrieg - Warsaw about to fall
* World War II WWII beginning 
* Nazis invasion on Poland & more

The front page features a banner headline: "FRENCH GAIN ON WEST FRONT" with subheads and two photos, one showing Polish prisoners kept behind barbed wire. (see images)
Complete with 30+ pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, some small binding holes along the spine, generally in nice condition.

background: On September 7, 1939, just a week…

MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, Aug. 11, 1944 

* U.S. Navy radioman George Ray Tweed
* "Ghost of Guam" evades Japanese for 2 1/2 years
* World War II serviceman hid in the jungles 

The front page has a five column heading: "Dodges Japs 2 1/2 Years on Guam" with subhead and photo of Tweed. (see images) 
Complete with all 18 pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins, some ink notation on inside pages, generally nice.

Background: By August 1944, the incredible story of George Ray Tweed, a U.S.…

MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, June 11, 1945 

* Battle of Okinawa - assault on the Yaeju-Dake Escarpment 
* U.S. Tenth Army's 96th Infantry Division vs. Japanese death-stand
 
The front page has a nice banner headline: "YANKS STORM DEATH-STAND JAPS" with subheads. (see images) Nice for display.
Complete with 22 pages, some various small ink notations with a few on the front page but nothing affecting mentioned report, light toning and minor wear at the margins, generally in good condition.

Background:…

MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, August 10, 1944

* Post D-Day France being occupied by U.S. Army
* World War II German defense falling apart
* Le Mans & more towns France falls to the allies 

The front page has a nice banner headline: "YANKS CAPTURE BIG PORTS" with subheads. (see images)
Complete with 18 pages, a few ink notations on the inside pages, but none affecting mentioned report, light toning and minor wear at the margins, generally nice. 

THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 23, 1942

* German U-85 - U-boat crewmen 
* Sunk off North Carolina coast (29 dead)
* First German submarine sunk by U.S. Navy - USS Roper
* Buried w/ military honors at Hampton National Cemetery  

The front page has a two column heading: "29 From a Sunken U-Boat Are Buried at Hampton, Va." (see images) Other World War II coverage throughout.
Complete with 36 pages, rag edition in nice condition.

Background: On July 22, 1942, 29 German U-boat crewmen from U-85 were buried with…

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Mass., July 23, 1945 

* Buchenwald concentration extermination camp
* Atrocities and inhuman conditions shown through images

The top of page 6 has a two column heading: "German Who Ruled Poland Gags At Buchenwald Horror Pictures" with subhead. (see images)
Much other World War II reporting throughout. Complete with 34 pages, rag edition in very nice condition.

Background: During his internment at Camp Ashcan in Mondorf-les-Bains in mid-1945, Dr. Hans Frank—the former…

THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 29, 1943

* re. The famous Doolittle raid of Japan
* U.S. Army Air Force B-25B Mitchell bombers
* Realization of Japanese executions 

The front page has a two column heading: "Chiang Reveals Massacres As Tokyo Raid Reprisals" (see images) This was when the Japanese executions of some American airmen were first being made public.
Complete with 44 pages, rag edition in great condition.

Background:After the Doolittle Raid on April 18, 1942, eight of the 80 participating…

CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE, Feb. 7, 1943 

* Post-Battle of Stalingrad 
* Nazis trapped at Sea of Azov

The front page has a nice banner headline: "'DUNKIRK' FOR 200,000 NAZIS" with subheads. (see images) Nice for display.
Thirty-two pages, light toning at the margins, some small binding holes along the spine, nice condition.

Background: On February 7, 1943, Red Army forces captured the port city of Azov at the mouth of the Don River, sealing the eastern shoreline of the Sea of Azov and trapping tens of…

THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 5, 1941

* Charles Hussock arrest in New York City
* Distribution of literature on public streets
* Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society member
* Jehovah's Witnesses movement stalled 
* Charles Taze Russell followers - Bible Students 

The top of the back page has a one column heading: "JEHOVAH ARREST HIGH COURT ISSUE" with subheads. (see images)
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because there was really no reason to save it at the time.
Much on the beginning World…

SECTION 6 only of the Chicago Sunday Tribune, Feb. 7, 1943 

* Hollywood actress Greer Garson
* Golden & World War II era 

This section contains entertainment related material throughout with a front page color photo of Hollywood actress Greer Garson. (see images) 
Complete section 6 only with 16 pages, minor margin wear, light toning and a few small binding holes along the spine, generally in nice condition.

Background: This February 7, 1943 issue of the Chicago Sunday Tribune’s "Section 6" holds…

THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 16, 1941

* Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak nears the end
* New York Yankees - Major league baseball

The sports section (page 21) has a five column headline proclaiming: "DiMaggio Streak Reaches 55 as Yanks Triumph" with various subheads and box scores. (see) Joe DiMaggio would extend his hitting streak to just one more game (56), where it would end.
Complete with 38 pages, rag edition, a little light damp staining, generally good.

Background: The July 16, 1941 edition of The…

MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, Minnesota, August 10, 1942

* Battle of Guadalcanal beginning
* Solomon Islands - U.S. Marines
* World War II - WWII

The front page has a banner headline: "FLEET FIGHTS ON; FOE STRONG" with subheads. (see images) Nice for display.
Complete with 16 pages, light toning at the margins, some small binding holes along the spine, generally in good condition.

Background: The August 10, 1942 issue of the Minneapolis Morning Tribune holds immense historical significance as it…

NEW YORK POST, February 22, 1942

* Internment of Japanese Americans
* FDR's Executive Order 9066
* Alien control order
* World War II - WWII

The front page has a one column heading: "FBI Pounces On Axis Aliens in N.Y. and N.J." (see images)
Complete with 14 pages, light toning at the margins, some small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.

Background: Executive Order 9066 and the subsequent mass incarceration of Japanese Americans stand as a profound and cautionary crisis in American…

NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, April 7, 1942

* Battle of Bataan ending
* Allies surrendering to Japanese
* Philippines Campaign
* World War II - WWII

The front page has a nice banner headline in bold lettering: "BATAAN ATTACKS INCREASE IN FURY WITH HEAVY LOSS" with subhead. (see images) Nice for display. This Luzon Island province would fall two days later. The Japanese capture would eventually lead to the infamous Bataan Death March.
Complete with all 26 pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins,…

NEW YORK POST, Nov. 21, 1941 

* Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann declaration
* Impending post world War II Jewish refugees 
* Jews to have a future homeland in Palestine ? 

The top of page 13 has a one column heading: "Jewish Future Is in Palestine" (see images)
Complete with all 38 pages, light toning at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally in good condition.

Background: The events of late November 1941 marked a critical geopolitical pivot that irrevocably bound the fate of…

NEW YORK POST, Nov. 10, 1941 

* Winston Churchill's Mansion House speech 
* Declares England with fight against Japan 
* If they attack U.S. - World War II - WWII

The front page has a nice banner headline: "'WE'LL JOIN U. S. IN HOUR IF JAPS FIGHT'--CHURCHILL" (see images)
Complete with all 26 pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins, some small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.

Background: The historical significance of Churchill’s November 10, 1941 speech lies in its role as…

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, August 31, 1942

* Battle of Milne Bay
* World War II - WWII
* Pacific theater campaign

The front page has a nice headline: "M'ARTHUR TRAPS JAPS IN MILNE BAY AMBUSH" with subheads. (see images) 
Complete 1st section only with 8 pages a little light staining, a few small binding holes along the spine, generally in good condition.

Background: The Battle of Milne Bay, culminating in the decisive stand at No. 3 Airstrip on August 31, 1942, was a monumental psychological and…

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. Aug. 29, 1942 

* Lyudmila Pavlichenko visits America 
* Soviet female sniper in the Red Army
* Amazing 309 confirmed kills of Nazis  

The bottom of the front page has a three column heading: "A Russian Woman Sniper Speaks" (see images) 
Complete with 26 pages, light toning at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.

Background: The late August 1942 American tour of Soviet Lieutenant Lyudmila Pavlichenko, as captured in The Springfield Union, marks a…

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, December 16, 1941

* Official Pearl Harbor attack report
* Frank Knox - secretary of the Navy
* U.S. enters World War II - WWII

The front page has a one column heading: KNOX DISCLOSES HAWAII DETAILS" with subheads. (see images) Lengthy text continues on page 3.
Complete with all 10 pages, light toning at the margins, some small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.

Background: The official report submitted by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox on December 15, 1941, was…

NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, October 27, 1940 The top of page 16 has a four column heading: "Sounding of Ram's Horn Heralds Coming Of the Year 5701 for Jewish Race" with subhead and related photo. (see images)
Complete with 38 pages, light toning and some wear at the margins, some small binding holes along the spine, generally good. Should be handled with care.

Background: Published in the New York World-Telegram during the solemn transition to Rosh Hashanah and the Hebrew year 5701, Elliott…

THE NEW YORK TIMES, December 15, 1944

* Battle of Bulge to begin (EVE)
* Armies line up at Siegfried Line (Westwall)
* World War II - WWII

The top of the front page has a six column headline: "7TH ARMY AT WESTWALL, SEEKS AN OPENING" with subheads. Two related maps are on page 4. The initial beginning of the infamous battle would begin the very next day.
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day with much more on World War II. Complete with all 36 pages, light toning at the margins, very nice…

NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, June 24, 1940

* France-Italy armistice
* Dictator Benito Mussolini 
* Battle of France conclusion

The front page has a nice banner headline: "FRENCH ACCEPT DUCE'S TERMS, FIGHTING TO CEASE TONIGHT" with subheads. (see) Nice for display.
Complete with all 28 pages, light toning, some small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.

Background: This June 24, 1940, issue of the New York World-Telegram serves as an extraordinary historical time capsule, capturing the precise…

THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 6, 1945

* Japanese atrocities described
* Palawan Massacre - Philippines 

The top of the front page has a five column headline: "U. S. ACCUSES JAPAN OF MASSACRE, TORTURE, STARVATION OF CAPTIVES" with subheads that include: "Burning and Murder of 150 in Prison Camp at Palawan Told. (see) Lengthy reporting continues on pages 2 & 3.
Complete with all 40 pages, light toning and a little wear along the margins, generally nice.

Background: The global publication of Imperial…

THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 5, 1945

* Wake Island back in U.S. possession
* Post World War II Japan

The front page has a four column headline: "AMERICAN FLAG IS RAISED ON WAKE ISLE" with subheads that include: "EPIC OF ATOLL ENDS" "Americans Go Ashore to Crown Heroic Fight of marines in 1941" and more. (see)
Complete with all 40 pages, light toning at the margins, generally very nice.

Background: The formal surrender of Wake Island on September 4, 1945, carried immense symbolic and emotional…

LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, Dec. 1, 1941  The front page features a dramatic, full banner headline reflecting the fragile state of global diplomacy: "JAPS WANT TO CONTINUE PARLEY WITH U. S.", which includes the prominent subheads: "U.S. General Staff Meets at War Department" and "DECISION IS MADE TODAY BY CABINET - Action Coincides With Red Reports of German Setback." A large, historic, U.S. Army Signal Corps photo dominates the front page, showing Chief of Staff General George

THE NEW YORK TIMES, August 5, 1940

* Ze-ev Jabotinsky death (1st report)
* Jewish Revisionist Zionist - Zionism
* Odessa, Ukraine author poet orator 

The top of page 13 has a one column heading: "JABOTINSKY DEAD; LED NEW ZIONISTS" with subheads and photo. I suspect this is one of the few publications to report this particular event as other titles in our inventory do not.
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Complete with all 30 pages, light toning at the margins, nice condition.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 5, 1944

* Alexander Fleming
* Penicillin - Penicillium
* Made available for public use
* World War II - WWII 

The front page has a two column heading: "Public to Get Penicillin Through 1,000 Hospitals" See below for background.
Complete in 34 pages, rag edition in great condition.

Background: This complete, 34-page issue of The New York Times from May 5, 1944, is a highly prized historical artifact that captures the exact dawn of the antibiotic age. Featuring a front-page…

MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, Feb. 24, 1942 

* Attack on California coast
* Ellwood oil field shelling
* Japanese submarine I-17

The front page banner headline proclaims: "SUB SHELLS WEST COAST" with subheads. (see images) Nice for display.
Complete with all 16 pages, light toning at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally in good condition.

Background: On February 23, 1942, the Japanese submarine I-17, commanded by Kozo Nishino, surfaced off the coast of Goleta, California, and…

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 27, 1944 

* Third United States Army
* General George S. Patton 
* World War II - WWII
* Battle of the Bulge prelude

The front page has a banner headline: "3D ARMY GAINS 5 MILES, SPLITS MAGINOT LINE" with subheads that include: "Patton's Forces Mile From St. Avold, Key Town Below Saarbruecken" and more. (see) Much more on other World war II events of the day.
Complete with all 34 pages, light toning at the margins, nice condition.

Background: On November 26, 1944, a pivotal…

MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, Sept. 12, 1945

* Manhattan Project comes to fruition
* Director physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer
* Post atomic bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
* Japanese claim of radiation in deaths

The front page has a two column heading: "Atom Bomb Ray Deaths a Myth, Writer Discovers" with photo of Nat Finney. (see images)
Complete with all 20 pages, several small ink notations throughout with 2 on the front page, but none affecting the key report, some tiny binding holes along the…

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 23, 1939

* Schneider v. State of New Jersey (Irvington)
* Supreme Court of the United States ruling
* Jehovah Witnesses victory re. street handbills 
* Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society 
* Charles Taze Russell followers - Bible Students 

The top of the front page one column heading: "HIGH COURT BARS CURBS ON HANDBILLS SET BY FOUR CITIES" with subheads. (see images) Much more on page 32.
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because there was really no reason to save…

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, Jan. 27, 1942

* Ben Hogan - professional golfer wins 
* San Francisco Open - Harding Park
* Much coverage on World War II - WWII

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: The front page of the sport's section (page 21) has a one column heading: "HOGAN BEATS PAR, RAIN, MUD-WINS COAST GOLF MEET" with subhead and leader board. (see images) 
Complete with 34 pages, light toning along margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.

Background: In 1942, Ben Hogan captured the San…

NEW YORK POST, August 21, 1940
 
* Leon Trotsky assassination (day of)
* Soviet Union Red Army founder
* Marxist Theorist

The front page has a two column heading: "Trotsky Is Dying After Ax Attack" (see images) He would die on this day
Complete with all 22 pages, light toning at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.

Background: The assassination of Leon Trotsky on August 21, 1940, signaled the definitive, bloody consolidation of Joseph Stalin’s absolute control over the…

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., Aug. 28, 1942

* USS Iowa battleship launching
* United States Navy - WWII 

The front page has a two column photo with heading: "Biggest Warship Is Launched" with brief text. 
And the top of the back p age has a one column heading: "IOWA, BIGGEST BATTLESHIP, IS LAUNCHED EARLY" with subheads. (see images)
Much on other World War II events of the day. Complete with all 24 pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, generally nice.

Background: On August 27, 1942,…