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LIFE

Front Cover
9 Dec 1940
136 pages
Vol. 9, No. 24
ISSN 0024-3019
Published by Time Inc
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
  

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Contents

Top fighters of German air force are aces Galland, Molders, Wick
3
Helmuth WICK, Adolf Galland; 1912-1996, Werner Molders; 1913-1941, Aviation, Military (Germany)
These pictures reflect the new patriotism
10
Patriotism
Mr Churchill runs the war
14
Sir Winston Churchill; 1874-1965
America begins training first conscript army in its peacetime history
27
United States Army
Ferment of Europe
32
Europe
How soon will Nazis assault this impregnable British fortress?
71
Gibraltar
American painting
74
Carnegie Institute, Painting, American
Christmas ornaments
84
Christmas decorations
Kitty Foyle
87
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Antique jewelry at Metropolitan museum show has a modern look
93
Jewelry

American war effort marks time
32
World War, 1939-1945 (United States)
Portrait
34
Philip Henry Kerr Lothian (11th Marquis of); 1882-1940
More U.S. aid to Britain
35
Posters
Secret Nazi speech
43
Richard Walther Oskar DARRE, World War, 1939-1945 (Germany), National socialism
Orr plaster-cast technique starts a revolution in war wound surgery
47
Hiram Winnett ORR, Plaster casts (Surgical), Military medicine
Skiing accidents are prevented by simple pre-season exercises
55
Exercise, Skiing
Cabin in the sky
63
Musicals, revues, etc (Reviews, Single works)
Ethel Waters conquers the devil in Cabin in the sky
63
Ethel Waters; 1896-1977
Christmas toys give great fun to old and young
97
Toys
Houses have conveniences
100
Doll houses
Beautifully dressed costume dolls
102
Dolls
Life goes up the Amazon with Brazil's President
106
Getulio Vargas; 1883-1954, Brazil
Konoye of Japan
110
Fumimaro Konoye, Japan (Politics and government)
Portrait
111
Kimmochi SAIONJI (prince)
Embryologist transplants chicks' legs, wings, eye
122
Embryology

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