Tag: 1943
Mars Overview, 1943
Composite map of Mars showing canals and terrain features. From The Book of Knowledge: The Children’s Encyclopedia. Volume 9, McLoughlin E.V., Thompson H. 1943. 
Journey Into Fear, 1943
An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.(IMDB)
Italian Poster
Promotional still of Dolores del Río
Amazing Stories, Aug, 1943
Remembering those that sacrificed everything for the freedoms we now cherish.
A Message from the Masked Marvel
The Masked Marvel communicated via recorded message to protect his identity
New 1943 Norge Appliances
Detail of Norge Appliance Ad where they explain that they didn’t make any new models for 1943 so that the materials could go into the war effort…
The Masked Marvel, 1943
A mysterious detective called The Masked Marvel battles Japanese saboteurs intent on blowing up America. (IMDb)
Today – The Bull’s-Eye
From the How To Shoot The U.S. Army Rifle, The infantry journal handbook, 1943
Walking Cactus, 1943
Pocket Guide to North Africa, 1943
After the close of the First World War, one of the great strategists of Europe predicted that the next great war would be won in North Africa. He foresaw such a rise in air power as would make the Mediterranean Sea virtually a defile for all shipping. If their enemies were to come into complete possession of the Mediterranean shores, an almost insupportable strain would be put upon the nations dependent on sea power. On the other hand, if the North African coast could be held by
the sea-power nations — Great Britain and the United States — its air and sea bases would become the spring-board to the reconquest of Europe and the final defeat of
the forces dominating that continent.
THREE YEARS OF STRUGGLE
FOR more than three years, events have sustained this prophecy, and the armed forces of the United Nations and of the Axis have been locked in a tremendous struggle for North Africa. One campaign has followed another across its desert spaces. None was finally successful. For a time it seemed as if the whole of the Mediterranean and the land which surrounded it would be lost to our
side…