Vol. II No. 38 16 pages What’s Wrong With This Picture?  

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Vol. IV No. 33 16 pages Working for Wages Articles: One Man’s Job Is Everybody’s Job What You Can Don As A Civilian With Your Army Training In Soviet Ukraine Civilian Jobs in the ETO GI Small Business

Vol. IV No. 29 32 pages 4 Years After Pearl Harbor Articles: Occupation of Japan China: 1937 vs 1945 Hawaii, the 49th Star? Mankind Awaits Liberation from Malaria Alaska War Weather

Vol. IV No. 28 32 pages Reconversion Articles: Out line of Plans Made for the Reconversion Period  Bridgeport Community Center Plan Home Building Atomic Energy Public Works From Battlefield to Bargain Counter Using War Plants in Peace Debunking the Myths of Foreign Trade The Army Talks

Vol. IV No. 25 32 pages Separation Center Diary Articles: Separation Center Diary Beyond Sovereignty Lies War United Nations Organization Festering Frontiers Problems of Peace

Vol. IV No. 24 32 pages Military Government in Action Articles: Why We Are Here Denazification Will the Germans Starve? Education Map DPs Justice in Germany Politics in Swaddling Clothes The Meaning of Victory The Army Talks

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Vol. IV No. 17 16 pages Alphabet Agencies Cover: This is the way American occupation troops would like it. Not all Sergeants, however, will find things as lush as Gerald McWilliams did in Munich Articles: AEP ( Army Education Program ) USRRA ( United States Riviera Recreation Area ) USO ( United Service Organizations ) […]

Vol. IV No. 16 32 pages Pacific Problems Articles: Frontier Fiction Korea Waits for Freedom Pacific Map Red Banner Army Three Strikes – and Out All the Comforts of a Jungle The Fabulous East Indies Letters

Vol. IV No. 12 16 pages European Theater Since VE-Day Articles: Musical Chairs Double Objective Second Halk Kick-off Full Speed in Reverse Test Tube for International Cooperation

Vol. IV No. 11 16 pages Focus: The Orient Cover: US Bomber surprises Jap destroyer off the Philippines Articles: Notes on the Navy What to do with Japan? Our Ally – China Half a Million By-Passed Japs

Vol. IV No. 8 16 pages Post-War Plans Newsfront – “Chinese Incident” – in Reverse Post-War Plans of US Troops In General Going Back “Home” Starting a Business Down on the Farm Working for Wages A Government Job Back to School An Army Career

Vol. IV No. 7 16 pages GI Bill Of Rights Education and job Training Guaranty of Loans Unemployment Allowances Job Finding Assistance

Vol. IV No. 32 pages Our Job In Germany . Newsfront – The Pattern Of Liberation Our Job In Germany Germany’s Disgrace by Walter Lippmann In These Six Days Germany Lost the War by T/4 Thomas S. Hyland Gotterdammerung by Vernon McKenzie Survival by Scott I. Duthie What Penalty? And So A Government Was Started […]

Vol. IV No. 2 16 pages ETO Record Newsfront – Japan’s Front Yard From D-day to D+224 Battle of Germany – D+224 to D+337 Bombs over the Reich Who Won the War?

Vol. III No. 18 16 pages The San Francisco Conference Newsfront – The Japs They Left Behind The Legion of the Lost The San Francisco Conference – Golden Gate to the Future Ex-Axis

Vol. III No. 17 20 pages Five Points of U.S. Foreign Policy Newsfront – Among the Ruins of Berlin Roosevelt is Gone by Walter Lippmann The main objectives of US foreign policy as outlined several times recently by Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius provide a blueprint for our present military, diplomatic and economic policies. […]

Vol. III No. 14 20 pages War and Peace After 1918 Ask almost anyone when World War I ended and the reply is likely to be : 11 November 1918. But that date is wrong, actually and legally. It was not even the end of the war for the United States. When did World War […]

Vol. III No. 9 20 pages Homefront and Total War Soldiers in the ETO have received a one-sided picture of the homefront because newspapers and radio are concerned with what is unusual or sensational. No one pretends that the homefront record is perfect. At the same time, no one, Hitler and Hirohito least of all, […]

Vol. III No. 10 8 pages The “Big Three” at Yalta Yalta, in the Crimea, scene of the recent “Big Three*” Conference, is hundreds of miles from the mud of the Western Front. No one in the world, however, is more closely concerned with the accomplishments of the conference than the US soldier. Because the […]

Vol. III No. 9 20 pages Homefront and Total War Soldiers in the ETO have received a one-sided picture of the homefront because newspapers and radio are concerned with what is unusual or sensational. No one pretends that the homefront record is perfect. At the same time, no one, Hitler and Hirohito least of all, […]

Vol. III No. 6 20 pages Combat Tips – For Fighting in Winter – At Night – In Forests – In Towns ……. It takes many different things to win a battle. No one individual can possibly assemble them all, give them names, and hand them out as a guide which, if carefully followed, will […]

Vol. III No. 4 20 pages The State of the Union Article II, Section 3 of our Constitution provides that the President “shall from time to time give the Cor gress information on the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” On 6 January […]

Vol. III No. 4 The State of the Union Article II, Section 3 of our Constitution provides that the President “shall from time to time give the Cor gress information on the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” On 6 January the President’s […]

Vol. III No. 3 20 pages USSR How To Blunt A Blitzkrieg This issue covers the story of the Soviet Union from the early days of 1939 to present. The tactics employed, the support received and the makeup of the Russian Army are also covered. Newscope – “We Have Returned” ( Philippines ) Printed in […]

Vol. III No. 2 20 pages 7 New Year’s Days It is the custom on New Year’s Day to look retrospectively on events and to make resolutions for the new year. In this issue, Army Talks imagines itself on seven New Year’s Days, looking back over the year that has just ended, summarizing the events. […]

Vol. II No. 49 20 pages Who Made Hitler? Photographs reproduced in this issue provide pictorial answer to the question. They show, from page 3 on, typical Germans men, women and children who “heiled” Hitler to power, and kept him in power. These are official German pictures, published in documentary books, and captured by the […]

Vol. II No. 47 Teamwork for Peace This ARMY TALKS discusses what has recently happened at a conference at Dumbarton Oaks. Another reason is that, even if you did read something about this conference of the Big Four, its meaning may not be obvious unless there is also a clear understanding of other things which […]

Vol. II No. 47 20 pages Teamwork for Peace This ARMY TALKS discusses what has recently happened at a conference at Dumbarton Oaks. Another reason is that, even if you did read something about this conference of the Big Four, its meaning may not be obvious unless there is also a clear understanding of other […]

Vol. II No. 44 German “Supermen” Return Underground Germans Continue To Plan World Conquest We, Americans and Allies, think of this struggle as separate wars, with intervals of uneasy peace. The minds of German leaders their followers do not work that way. They think of World War I and World War II and Wars III […]

Vol. II No. 43 What To Do With War Criminals? WILL THE GUILTY ESCAPE THIS TIME? Judgment Day for German war criminals is very close. Many, many thousands already feel the hand of Fate clutching at their necks. Some may be fortunate and die in battle. Others skulk in terror of those whom they once […]

Vol. II No. 41 24 pages Jap – German German – Jap Twice in our own lifetime the German people have deliberately plunged the world into war. They had their eyes open; they knew what they were doing. In 1914 their slogan was German Kulturwhich you can translate as a world run by and for […]

Vol. II No. 40 20 pages What to do With Germany! This issue of ARMY TALKS, written by a soldier who served in the last war as well as in this, brings back the attitudes and the errors of a quarter of a century ago. History is often made by men who have learned very […]

Vol. II No. 36 24 pages How I Got Wounded An examination of the ” case studies ” in this issue reveals that many of them made the same mistakes. Careful surveys of combat casualties indicate that most men get hit because they neglect some simple combat precaution. Copy the list of rules on pages […]

Vol. II No. 35 20 pages What Boche PWs Think About You

24 pages Vol. II No. 32 What You Should Know About France The present issue of ARMY TALKS is written for all of us by one of us. Our roving reporter spent three weeks in Normandy just after D-Day and renewed his acquaintance with a country and people he had visited before. He saw the […]

Vol. II No. 30 Seven Against The World! This issue of ARMY TALKS deals with certain men high in the ranks of the Nazi party, and with the part they are playing in this war. It is just one of a series of ARMY TALKS which have appeared in the past several months, dealing with […]

Vol. II No. 27 Notes from Normandy Material for this issue was secured in the combat area in Normandy by a member of ARMY TALKS staff, and sent back by ‘plane. It is written by the soldiers fighting in France. What you’ve been taught at Fort Benning and Camp Blanding and Fort Ord, or wherever […]

Vol. II No. 26 Who’s who, what’s what, and Hau’s hofer Material for this issue was prepared by the staff of ARMY TALKS from the book ” Geopolitics” by Robert Strausz-Hupe, an article in ” Fortune” by the same author, and from numerous articles and reports made available through the courtesy of the Royal Institute […]

Vol. II No. 23 16 pages Greetings from Goebbels You know how the Nazis used psychological warfare before 1930 to secure ” bloodless ” conquests in the Rhineland, Austria and Czechoslovakia. Hitler’s propaganda machine is still a most effective weapon. Nazi agents can plant rumors and disunity stories in any town perhaps they’ve been active […]

Vol. II No. 22 32 pages ACHTUNG!! atten’SHUN TO YOU The dope in this ARMY TALKS was written by Major Roy L. Atteberry and illustrated by Sergeant Dick Wingert. It’s combat stuff right out of a combat soldier’s mouth. The ideas in it aren’t written like a Field Manual, but you’ll find they parallel your […]

Vol. II No. 18 16 pages The Enemy and You This issue of ARMY TALKS dicusses your enemy – the Nazi soldier you will face when the Allies invade Europe. It deals with his background, training, equipment and skill as a fighter. The first section of the book, explaining the background of Hitler’s army, was […]

Vol. II No. 17 16 pages Queen of Battle This issue of ARMY TALKS is a tribute to the fighting foot soldier. It was written to show that he still plays first fiddle in the aggregation that shortly will provide music for Hitler’s Swan Song. How he trains and what he must know ; his […]

Vol. II No. 14 20 pages The Nature of a Free Man We Americans weren’t the only backward citizens. The rest of the free peoples in the Western world were just as dull. They have paid a more terrible price. They lived higher on the slopes of the volcano; they were the first to perish […]

Vol. II No. 13 Lend-Lease – Weapon for Victory This issue of ARMY TALKS consists of an excerpt from the book, Lend-Lease, Weapon For Victory, by Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., first Lend-Lease administrator and now Undersecretary of State in Washington. It describes how the United States realized that danger threatened, and of the steps which […]

Vol. II No. 10 Words are Weapons, too! SOLDIERS who do their fighting with a rifle and bayonet, a long-range bomber or the machine tools of an Ordnance or Engineer workshop, are very likely to have a low opinion of the highly-trained specialists of the Psychological Warfare Combat Teams. A FOOTSORE DOGFACE, staggering in under […]

Vol. II No. 9 The German Soldier This issue of ARMY TALKS was prepared by S/Sgt. H. Whitman of the staff of ARMY TALKS, based upon material from U.S. Army files, the British Ministry of Information and the British War Office. The data on the psychological training of German troops was first published in New […]

Vol. II No. 6 20 pages Jobs After the War In this issue of ARMY TALKS Charles Hitch, a well-known young economist, has sketched the nature of the problem and suggested some of the general lines along which many of those expert in such matters would move in seeking a solution. The purpose of this […]

Vol. II No. 5 16 pages The Good General This issue of ARMY TALKS was condensed from the book ” Generals and Generalship,” by Field Marshal Lord Wavell, formerly commander of British Forces in the Middle East, Commander-in-Chief in India and now Viceroy of India. It is reproduced by special permission of the Wavell family, […]

Vol. II No. 1 20 pages The British Political System The best soldier is a soldier who knows what he is fighting for, and loves that which he knows. Confidence in command, pride in service, and a deep sense of personal participation and responsibility for the successful conclusion of this war are necessary for victory […]

Vol. I No. 6 16 pages Whats Wrong With The Germans? WE have proved one thing in America: the German problem is not a racial problem; it is not a problem of blood. When a German family moves to the United States, and lives there for a generation or two, it produces as good citizens […]

Vol. I No. 3 16 pages Problems of the Pacific The present issue of ARMY TALKS is intended to give men in the ETO a picture of the problems on the other side of the world. This is not only a ” total war,” but a world war. Conditions in the Pacific as well as […]

Vol. I No. 2 16 pages War on the Supply Lines The story of War on the Supply Lines was prepared by Ensign DON C. HEWITT, USMS, S/Sgt. HAMILTON WHITMAN and S/Sgt, CARL W. LARSEN, all members of the staff of The Stars and Stripes. All the material used was taken from published accounts in […]