BANDLEADER GLENN MILLER’S AIRPLANE MISSING
“Former Orchestra Leader Had Been Conducting Bands
of the Army Air Forces Since Enlistment–Won Many Honors”
The New York Times
December 25, 1944
This historic Times newspaper publishes the shocking news that Major Glenn Miller, who conducted one of the most successful dance bands in the Swing Era, was missing on a flight from England to Paris where he was heading to join his Army Air Force Orchestra. The page four headline sadly reads: “Major Glenn Miller Is Missing On Flight From England to Paris.” The story reads, in part, “His Air Force Band had been playing in Paris. No members of the band were with him on the plane. He last led his band in a broadcast Dec. 12. His band, scheduled to broadcast over BBC tomorrow at 7 P.M. in the ‘AEF Christmas Show,’ will be conducted by Sgt. Jerry Gray, deputy leader.”The article also contains a wonderful photograph of the beloved bandleader in his military uniform.
Miller, who had such enduring hits as “Chattanooga Choo Choo,” “In The Mood,” “Tuxedo Junction,” and his theme, “Moonlight Serenade,” was a fine trombonist, arranger and bandleader who sold millions of records in the late 1930s and early 1940s. His orchestra also starred in two major motion pictures, and his music continues to live on in both older people who and today’s youth who have learned to swing dance.
This is the complete and original rag paper edition in virtually mint condition as printed on Christmas Day in 1944. See the scan for the huge Times triple-tiered WWII headlines on the Battle of the Bulge at the time the weather cleared enough for a huge Allied air counterattack on the surprise Nazi drive in the Ardennes Forrest in eastern Belgium and Luxembourg. Great war photos, too! I had a devil of a time finding this paper as I am a jazz saxophonist myself and grew up listening to Glenn Miller’s records of my parents. A fantastic opportunity!
$450
“THE IRON CURTAIN” SPEECH OF WINSTON CHURCHILL
THE BRITISH HERO CRITICIZES SOVIET EXPANSION IN EASTERN EUROPE
“UNITE TO STOP RUSSIANS, CHURCHILL WARNS AT FULTON”
The Stars and Stripes
Nurnberg, Bavaria, West Germany
March 6, 1946
In a 45-minute address before the Westminster (Missouri) College faculty, as a guest of President Truman, Churchill said Russia constituted “a growing challenge and peril to Christian civilization”and called fro a virtual United States/British military alliance to prevent a third world war. He voiced a grim warning that “Communist fifth columnists” are at work under supervision of Moscow in most of the world. The report continues on page 8 under the subhead: “Iron Curtain Descends.” The great statesman and author then said, “From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” This was the first use of the famous phrase describing the former free nations and capitals of Eastern Europe that were now under Soviet domination.
The issue also contains an amazing photograph of Japanese Emperor Hirohito dressed in Western style visiting a housing project for bombing victims of the deadly American raids on Japan during World War II. Another headline and story talks about a British atomic expert, Dr. Alan Nunn, who was found giving secret atomic energy information to an unidentified person.
Stars and Stripes was the great and widely-read service newspaper of World War II (and WWI). This one is 8 pages in length, pages separated cleanly at the spine as was sometimes normal, and in nice condition. A most historic issue–the warning from Truman was quite correct. The Berlin Wall didn’t fall until 1989.
$270
HITLER BECOMES CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY
NAZIS BEGIN THEIR TAKEOVER OF GERMANY
The New York Times
January 31, 1933
The Times famous triple-tiered headlines shout: “HITLER MADE CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY BUT COALITION CABINET LIMITS POWER; CENTRISTS HOLD BALANCE IN REICHSTAG.” After losing several elections to President Von Hindenburg, Franz von Papen makes a deal with the WWI general to make Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist Party, Chancellor of Germany even though they don’t have a majority in the Reichstag. The story includes this fascinating statement: “The composition of the Cabinet leaves Herr Hitler no scope for gratification of any dictatorial ambition.” (I think history proved differently)! Yet, the front page also contains a story by the AP headed, “HITLER PLEDGES FIGHT IN CABINET.” The Nazi statement says, in part, “After a thirteen-year struggle the National Socialist movement has succeeded in breaking through to the government; the struggle to win the German nation, however, is only the beginning.” Reaction to the news of Hitler’s appointment at German Chancellor is mixed in Europe. Poland hopes Hitler’s new post will help show the world the true face of what Germany will become under the Nazi Party. Page three contains photographs of Hitler, Franz Von Papen, Dr. Wilhelm F. Frick, and the future head of the Luftwaffe Herman Goering.
Here is the complete and original 38-page Times newspaper in superb white condition, printed on special rag stock for preservation. Only around ninety such issues were printed in 1933. This issue has been reprinted from microfilm in a number of books I’ve seen.
$350
AUSCHWITZ AND OTHER NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS REVEALED!
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS TOLD, BARING ATROCITIES
COMMITTED AGAINST JEWS AT AUSCHWITZ AND BIRKENAU;
THE GERMAN GAS CHAMBERS DESCRIBED IN DETAIL
The New York Times
November 26, 1944
A chilling front page story published for the first time reveals the terrible German concentration camps. The headline reads: “U.S. Board Bares Atrocity Details Told by Witnesses at Polish Camps.” The story begins:“In the first detailed report by a United States Government Agency offering eyewitness proof of mass murder by the Germans, the War Refugee Board made public today accounts by three persons of organized atrocities at Birkenau and Oswiecim [Auschwitz] in south-western Poland that transcend the horrors of Lublin…It is a fact beyond denial that the Germans have deliberately and systematically murdered millions of innocent civilians–Jews and Christians alike–all over Europe,” the WRB declared.” “This campaign of terror and brutality, which is unprecedented in all history and which even now continues unabated, is part of the German plan to subjugate the free peoples of the world…So revolting and diabolical are the German atrocities that the minds of civilized people find it difficult to believe that they have actually taken place.”
In the Spring of 1944, two prisoners escaped from Auschwitz and described the terrible camp and conditions to Slovakian resistance leaders–these seemingly incredible eyewitness reports made their way to Western intelligence services and were finally revealed to the public in this New York Times report. However, the horrors and killings continued in this and other death camps even as Allied troops began to occupy more Nazi territory.
This almost unbelievable report continues on page 24 to reveal in great detail, the Nazi gas chambers and how Jews were led to their deaths in “cyanide showers.” Imagine the horror of the readers of this Times account back in 1944 to learn just how brutal Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Third Reich was! It is really difficult to put this paper down–you just read it over and over again.
The last 7,000 surviving prisoners at Auschwitz were finally liberated by the Soviet Army on January 27, 1945, however many thousands more had been marched out of the camp before it could be captured.
This truly historic issue also contains the Times famous triple-tiered headlines–in this case news of the American Army breaking through German defenses, and also gains in the Pacific War against Japan. “AMERICANS BREAK THROUGH HUERTGEN FOREST; LOOSENING NAZI GRIP ON COLOGNE APPROACHES; U.S. FLIERS SMASH 4 MORE JAPANESE TRANSPORTS.”
Here is the complete Times Sunday edition with magazine section containing incredible photos including captured German soldiers, sports, movies, old-time radio shows, and all the latest war news. You’ll be reading and sharing this issue for a month! And, condition? This is the very scarce “rag paper” edition, printed on acid-free stock by the Times in order to better preserve its papers. Yes, it’s in virtually MINT condition as published on Nov. 26, 1944. We have but one issue, so please reserve this one quickly. It belongs in the Holocaust Museum in DC, no doubt.
$750
PEARL HARBOR ATTACKED!
“JAPS
BOMB
HAWAII”
“DECLARE WAR ON U.S. AND BRITAIN”
Daily News
New York
December 8, 1941
Wow! Here is one of the best Pearl Harbor newspapers ever published using 3″ bold headlines (see scans). The shocking news continues inside with headlines like: “U.S. FLEET HITS BACK,” JAPS WAR ON U.S., RAID HAWAII GUAM.” “Treacherous,’ Hull Says; Denounces Jap Envoys.” Casualty reports stated that the battleship “West Virginia” had been sunk, and the “Oklahoma” set afire. (The real depth of the disaster was kept from the public for security purposes). “JAP BOMBS SEEN LEADING TO LAND ATTACK ON PHILIPPINES.” Another piece claims thatJapanese parachutists had landed in Hawaii and were supposedly part of suicide squads! It also claimed that “….the United States fleet steamed out of Pearl Harbor.”
Page after page of this incredible newspaper talk about the attack and beginning war in the Pacific. You just can’t put it down! The complete 64-page edition in very good condition with only minor wear to the spine. Can be easily picked up and read as someone surely did back in 1941.
$750
WORLD WAR II BEGINS - GERMANY ATTACKS POLAND!
“HITLER OPENS WAR ON POLAND.”“Orders Army Meet Force With Force:
Starts Offensive Along Polish Border”
The Topeka Daily Capital
Topeka, Kansas
September 1, 1939
On the pretext that Poland had “rejected” his demands for a return of Danzig, Chancellor Adolf Hitler orders the German Army and Luftwaffe to attack Poland–made all the easier by the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. Hitler grabs the free city of Danzig immediately, and warns foreigners to leave Poland. Front page photos of young Hitler as a Bavarian house painter(!), Benito Mussolini of Italy, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Front page chart showing the relative military strenth of Britain, France, Poland, Germany, Italy, and Russia. Another report states that Hitler is still willing to “negotiate” with Great Britain!
I have found September 1, 1939 newspapers to be about the very toughest WWII issues to locate anywhere. This is the only one we have in stock, and I have no idea whether we’ll ever see another. 20 pp., complete as printed in 1939, and in fine condition. This is one to display!
$450
GERMAN BATTLESHIP “BISMARCK” IS SUNK!
“SINK THE BISMARCK!”
BRITISH SHIPS AND TORPEDO PLANES DOOM
THE PRIDE OF THE HITLER’S NAZI FLEET
Taunton Daily Gazette
Taunton, Mass.
May 27, 1941
The mighty German battleship “Bismarck” is located and sent to the bottom of the Atlantic after an intensive 3-day hunt by British Naval vessels. A torpedo from a seaplane disabled “Bismarck’s” rudder causing the great ship to turn in a continuous circle sealing her doom in the face of overwhelming odds. A HUGE banner headline screams: “BRITISH SINK BISMARCK.” This superb newspaper carries a full report of the action and a fabulous photograph of the 35,000-ton German behemoth. The last message from the crippled battleship as reported by Berlin radio was, “Ship out of control. Will fight to the last shell. Long live the Fuehrer!”
Just three days earlier, the “Bismarck” blew up the HMS “Hood,” the largest battleship in the world at 42,000 tons, with just one shot from her 14-inch guns (hit the magazine). Understandably, the English wanted immediate revenge….and got it!
Here is the complete newspaper as published in 1941–14 pages in all, and just begging to be framed as an amazing conversation piece. Believe me, this one will literally “jump off your wall!”
$295
DEATH OF FDR
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT SUCCUMBS TO A CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE
VICE PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN BECOMES PRESIDENT
WORLD WAR II CONTINUES UNABATED
San Francisco Chronicle, EXTRA
April 13, 1945
Huge, bold 4″ headline screams: “F.D.R. DIES!” Other headlines followed by the full report of his demise. Superb front page photograph of the four-term President, with photos of President Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt on page three with continuing details. The issue also contains the latest action reports from the fighting in Nazi Germany and in the Pacific.
Complete 18-page EXTRA edition of the Chronicle in very fine condition. This one is just begging to be framed for a wall display!
$365
DEATH OF ADOLPH HITLER!
NAZI DICTATOR DIES IN BERLIN UNDER ATTACK
The State
Columbia, SC
May 2, 1945
Huge banner headline screams: “HITLER REPORTED DEAD.” Following headlines read: “Hamburg Radio Says Fuehrer Fell in Battle. Grand Admiral Doenitz, Ruthless Submarine Killer, Takes Place Saying Struggle Will Continue.” (Doenitz meant fighting against Russia). There are three front page bust photos of Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, the dreaded Gestapo Chief, and Admiral Doenitz. The reports say that Russia believes the news to be a “Fascist trick!” Hitler apparently committed suicide in his underground bunker.
The State’s editorial on Hitler’s death opined: “If he is dead the world is rid of the man who has caused more needless deaths than any other person who ever lived–a man who shall go down in history as the greatest menace to civilization and the most contemptible oppressor of people yet produced on this earth. May our victory this tie be so convincing that no such person can ever rise to follow in his footsteps.”
This graphic and historic issue is in very fine condition. Apparently two inside page comic strips were removed decades ago. A perfect paper to display.
$175
THE NUREMBURG TRIALS - TOP NAZIS GUILTY!
THIS NEWSPAPER HAS BEEN SOLD
GOERING, HESS, VON RIBBENTROP GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES
The New York Times
October 1, 1946
Bold triple-tiered banner headlines say: “ALL EXCEPT 3 OF NAZI WAR CHIEFS GUILTY; GOERING, HESS, VON RIBBENTROP CONVICTED; SCHACHT, VON PAPEN FRITZSCHE ACQUITTED.”The historic war crimes tribunal comes to its conclusion, deciding the fates of Hitler’s top henchmen who survived World War II. Large photograph showing all the defendants at the proceedings including Nazie villains as Albert Speer, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Julius Streicher. The report opines that most would receive the death penalty. “Goering Is Among Six Guilty on All–Fate to Be Heard Today.”
The complete newspaper in superb condition with just light browning.
$250
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