December 21, 1940. The 20s Pass

On this day in 1940 F. Scott Fitzgerald, chronicler of the 1920s, died at age 44.  

Fitzgerald was a brilliant writer and his writings came to virtually define the America of the 1920s.  He lived a troubled life, however, and was an alcoholic, a condition he attributed to having had recurring tuberculosis.  The direct cause of his death was a heart attack.

Elsewhere, the Greeks were fighting on in their country and the Italians were not doing well in North Africa, as the following collection of photographs of Italian prisoners of war demonstrates.

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Day 478 December 21, 1940