Poster Saturday: Come Along

 

October 7, 1943. Murder

The Germans murdered 1,313 Jewish former residents of the Bialystok Ghetto at Auschwitz.  Most of them were children.  Bialystok's ghetto had seen a failed uprising.

Over 100 people, mostly Italian civilians, were killed when a bomb planted by the Germans went off at the post office in Naples.

Shigematsu Sakaibara (酒井原 繁松) reading a statement following his conviction of war crimes.

The Japanese murdered 97 American civilians who had been held on Wake Island under the orders of Japanese naval commander Shigematsu Sakaibara (酒井原 繁松).  He'd be sentenced to death for the event after the war.

Sakaibara believed an American landing was imminent, which would not justify in any fashion the murders.  It was, however, what led him to give the order.  After at first denying the murders had occured, he would ultimately confess to them and express regret, but also maintain that the Allies had no authority to try him and that his sentence was unjust following the American use of nuclear weapons.

The New Georgia Campaign came to an end with an Allied victory.

Lassie Come Home, the first Lassie film, was released.

Poster Saturday. Bears are dangerous.

 

Thursday, August 26, 1943. War bond baseball.

$800,000,000 worth of War Bonds were sold for an exhibition baseball game that features seven of the then twelve living members of the Baseball Hall of Fame; Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, Tris Speaker, Honus Wagner, Eddie Collins, George Sisler, and Connie Mack as the manager.

The event also featured entertainment from James Cagney, Ethel Merman, Cab Calloway, Milton Berle, Joe E. Lewis, Carole Landis and Ralph Bellamy.

Babe Ruth hit his last home run during the game, more of which can be read about here:

1943 All Pacific Recreation Fund – Service All-Stars vs Los Angeles & Hollywood

The 800 million dollars was equivalent to over 10.7 billion dollars in current funds.

The Germans occupied the Alpine passes with Italy in anticipation of the Italians surrendering.

The USSR recognized Egypt.

The US, Canada and British governments give limited recognition to the Free French Committee of National Liberation.

Poster Saturday: Guard Your Freedom.

 United States Information Agency for the Philippines, circa 1952.

Best recruiting poster ever

 

Sick Call.

 

The Irish Canadian Breakfast?

By BiblioArchives / LibraryArchives - Flickr: Irish Free State Butter, Eggs and Bacon for our Breakfasts / Du beurre, des œufs et du bacon de l’État libre d’Irlande au déjeuner, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17283294

 

A mix of save up posters for Poster Saturday

 

Poster Saturday: British Recruiting Poster, late 1960s.

Poster Saturday: For Peace Sake.

 

Poster Saturday: "Don't miss your great opportunity"

World War Two Navy WAVES recruiting poster that looks more like a college recruiting poster, or perhaps a travel poster.

This poster is really emblematic of the era in several ways.  The two young women have a very clean, 1940s appearance, with the large city behind them likewise having one.  Very much how the nation saw itself at the time.

Poster Saturday. Keep Calm.

 

Poster Saturday. One Blitz Buggy Each Month.

 

Poster Saturday. Early Cold War Recruiting Poster

 I'm not sure of the vintage of this, but I'd place it safety in the 1950s, or very early 1960s.  The uniform is the World War Two paratrooper inspired uniform that came into service in the late 1940s and which stuck around until the early 1960s.  It was frankly a better uniform than the standard Army "fatigue" uniform of the 60s and 70s.

And the soldier is carrying the M1 Garand, which remained in service in general issue for the U.S. Army after the Second World War until after 1958, when the M14 started to go into production.  The Army frankly never felt a real hurry to replace the M1, although sufficient numbers were made such that when the Army and Marine Corps first deployed to Vietnam in numbers, in 1965, the Garand was then found only in the Navy and the Reserves.

Poster Saturday. Idealized Early Modern Age

 

Motor Drivers required for the Army Service Corps.

 

Poster Saturday. Late Vietnam War recruiting poster

 

Poster Saturday (belated).

 For an explanation, see this:  

1942 Anti-Theft Sign

Be Bear Aware