LIFE

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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

Mili shows how falcons fly
12
Birds (Flight), Hawks
Dear mom, I got a valet
16
Americans (India), India (Social life and customs)
Naval victory in the Solomons
29
SOLOMON islands, Battle of, 1942
Americans on New Guinea close in on Japs with Australian allies
34
World War, 1939-1945 (Papua New Guinea)
First pictures of the American landings on North African shores
36
World War, 1939-1945 (Campaigns and battles, Africa)
Coffee rationing
64
Coffee (Rationing)
Air transport
75
Air travel, UNITED STATESAir force, Army/Transport command
Azimuthal map shows possible air routes
78
Aviation charts
Age regression
86
Hypnotism
Fluorescein: chemical makes blood circulation visible under ultraviolet light
91
Diagnosis, Fluorescein

You can't have a people's war when people are kept out of it
38
World War, 1939-1945 (Public opinion)
Gas and tires
40
Tires, Automobile
Truman committee exposes housing mess
45
Government investigations, Public housing
George Washington slept here
57
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Senator Chandler's daughter lands 7-year movie contract
60
Mimi CHANDLER
Skin of our teeth
93
Thornton Wilder; 1897-1975
18-year-old
103
Robert Lyle BERGER
Patton of the armored force
112
George Smith Patton; 1885-1945
Inspiration
126
Bernard KESSEL
Life goes to a Soviet embassy reception
132
Maxim Maximovich Litvinov; 1876-1951, Washington (D.C.) (Social life and customs)

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