Life Magazine in 1945
/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 1945, it seemed that the was pivotal: the atrocities in Europe were in the news more and trials were starting for German leader that had not killed themselves….the US succeeded in ending the war with Japan by using atomic bombs. The industry that supplied the war was being scrapped or turned to civilian uses. (Click on any of the sample images below to see a larger version and the links to see the whole magazine online.)
Life Magazine 1945-01-01 - 5,000 tires wear out on the western front every 24 hours
Life Magazine 1945-01-08 - Evening of July 25 in Normandy (painting)
Life Magazine 1945-01-15 - Granite stones for Hitler’s victory monument
Life Magazine 1945-01-22 - Western Electric ad
Life Magazine 1945-01-29 - Vegetable of War in the Southwest
Life Magazine 1945-02-05 - Murder in the Snow (where Germans shot US prisoners
Life Magazine 1945-02-12 - Trench foot
Life Magazine 1945-02-19 - Dalai Lama
Life Magazine 1945-02-26 - Soldiers in Germany (winter)
Life Magazine 1945-03-05 - Iwo Jima
Life Magazine 1945-03-12 - Glass manufacturing
Life Magazine 1945-03-19 - Germans crumble in the west
Life Magazine 1945-03-26 - German girl in ruins of Cologne
Life Magazine 1945-04-02 - Coca Cola ad
Life Magazine 1945-04-09 - American paratrooper….east of the Rhine
Life Magazine 1945-04-16 - Ford ad
Life Magazine 1945-04-23 - Roosevelt's death
Life Magazine 1945-04-30 - Hitler's hideout
Life Magazine 1945-05-07 - Belsen
Life Magazine 1945-05-14 - Nazi suicides
Life Magazine 1945-05-21 - London goes wild on VE day
Life Magazine 1945-05-28 - Okinawa
Life Magazine 1945-06-04 - Battered face of Germany
Life Magazine 1945-06-11 - Middle East oil
Life Magazine 1945-06-18 - Americans battle for Okinawa
Life Magazine 1945-06-25 - Harry Truman's Missouri
Life Magazine 1945-07-02 - Hitler's eyrie
Life Magazine 1945-07-09 - Japanese surrenders are increasing
Life Magazine 1945-07-16 - Caricatures of correspondents
Life Magazine 1945-07-23 - Berlin
Life Magazine 1945-07-30 - Postwar Jeep
Life Magazine 1945-08-06 - Empire State Building fire
Life Magazine 1945-08-13 - General Motors: refrigerators and airplane propeller blades
Life Magazine 1945-08-20 - Atomic bomb
Life Magazine 1945-08-27 - Victorious China
Life Magazine 1945-09-03 - Planes scrapped
Life Magazine 1945-09-10 - Battered Tokyo
Life Magazine 1945-09-17 - Hiroshima
Life Magazine 1945-09-24 - Coca Cola ad
Life Magazine 1945-10-01 - International Harvester ad
Life Magazine 1945-10-08 - Masks worn in Hiroshima
Life Magazine 1945-10-15 - Nagasaki
Life Magazine 1945-10-22 - USS Battan in Panama Canal
Life Magazine 1945-10-29 - USS Enterprise I New York Harbor
Life Magazine 1945-11-05 - Solar eclipse
Life Magazine 1945-11-12 - Waterfront fire - Chicago
Life Magazine 1945-11-19 - British brides
Life Magazine 1945-11-26 - Graveyard of US Liberty ships
Life Magazine 1945-12-03 - Berlin children
Life Magazine 1945-12-10 - International Harvester ad
Life Magazine 1945-12-17 - Housing shortage
Life Magazine 1945-12-24 - Tom Wolf and Asheville NC
Life Magazine 1945-12-31 - Big snow in Buffalo
