Life Magazine in 1939
/Internet Archive has digitized versions of many Life Magazines. I have been browsing through them – slowly since there was an issue for each week. As I looked at the issues from 1939, I thought about my parents in elementary school then. War was becoming more serious over the course of the year but Pearl Harbor was not until December 1940; the US was providing supplies but was not actually engaged in the war effort.
Life Magazine 1939-01-02 – Japanese Navy holds the Yangtze
Life Magazine 1939-01-09 – Very cold in Europe
Life Magazine 1939-01-16 – US Capitol building
Life Magazine 1939-01-23 – Scenes from Mexico
Life Magazine 1939-01-30 – Tourist trailers in Tampa municipal park
Life Magazine 1939-02-06 – American plane breaks speed records
Life Magazine 1939-02-13 – Fort Wayne house goes up in 1 hour 4 minutes
Life Magazine 1939-02-20 – Birthplaces of presidents
Life Magazine 1939-02-27 – This is the way the fleet goes to battle
Life Magazine 1939-03-06 – German battleship launched
Life Magazine 1939-03-13 – World’s Fair
Life Magazine 1939-03-20 - Goebbels
Life Magazine 1939-03-27 – Construction of “America” at Newport News shipyard
Life Magazine 1939-04-03 - Coelacanth
Life Magazine 1939-04-10 – Madrid falls and General Franco’s Spain joins the European dictatorships
Life Magazine 1939-04-17 – Britain’s defense against planes from continent
Life Magazine 1939-04-24 – Marian Anderson
Life Magazine 1939-05-01 – Louis Raemaekers drawings from WWI
Life Magazine 1939-05-08 – Burning ship in Le Havre
Life Magazine 1939-05-15 – British royal women
Life Magazine 1939-05-22 – Chicago fire affects the price of wheat
Life Magazine 1939-05-29 – Hyde Park and the Roosevelts
Life Magazine 1939-06-05 – Grand Coulee Dam
Life Magazine 1939-06-12 – Albert Switzer
Life Magazine 1939-06-19 – British royalty in Washington
Life Magazine 1939-06-26 – WWI trenches
Life Magazine 1939-07-03 - Antarctica
Life Magazine 1939-07-10 – Emperor Hirohito
Life Magazine 1939-07-17 – Mount Rushmore and fireworks
Life Magazine 1939-07-24 – Coca-Cola ad
Life Magazine 1939-07-31 – Texaco Dealers (rest rooms registered)
Life Magazine 1939-08-07 – Japanese showing captured Russian tank and plane wreckage
Life Magazine 1939-08-14 – Bloody climax of U.A.W. Strike
Life Magazine 1939-08-21 – Concentration camps
Life Magazine 1939-08-28 – Wizard of Oz (technicolor)
Life Magazine 1939-09-04 – Madeline (children’s book)
Life Magazine 1939-09-11 – Salvaging the relics of WWI I France
Life Magazine 1939-09-18 – Liner “Athenia” is sunk
Life Magazine 1939-09-25 – German leaves its mark
Life Magazine 1939-10-02 – The English take the war in their stride
Life Magazine 1939-10-09 – Queen Elizabeth looks over London’s air-raid precautions
Life Magazine 1939-10-16 – Hitler reviews German Army from plane
Life Magazine 1939-10-23 – Hitler and von Ribbentrop walking
Life Magazine 1939-10-30 – German submarines in the North Sea
Life Magazine 1939-11-06 – 3 Ocean liners in New York
Life Magazine 1939-11-13 – Helen Hayes and family
Life Magazine 1939-11-20 – Nazi Bombers reach Scottish coast
Life Magazine 1939-11-27 - Lockheed
Life Magazine 1939-12-04 – 6 of 140 Allied and neutral ships sunk in the war
Life Magazine 1939-12-11 – French guard on German border
Life Magazine 1939-12-18 – Military inspired toys for Christmas
Life Magazine 1939-12-25 - High spots of “Gone with the Wind”
