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Features
100 ways WWII changed America and the world
From antibiotics to cell phones, from rock-and-roll to the Middle East conflict, the Second World War turned life on earth upside down—for better and for worse.
Hitler’s rocketeers put Americans on the moon
America beat the USSR in the race to put a man on the moon because US forces captured the right German scientists in 1945. By Bryan Ethier
How to be civilian again
An avalanche of self-help books welcomed GIs home from war, giving them advice on everything from sex to changes at home. By Mark D. Van Ells
Departments
Kilroy
Notes from our editor
V-Mail
Letters from our readers
World at War
A map of the main events of September and October 1945
Home Front
The icebox
Pinup
Donna Reed
Landings
The war monuments of Washington, DC
The Funnies
Starman
War Stories
Our readers’ recollections
Flashback
Old-time ad
Books and Media
The latest reviews
Theater of War
Judgment at Nuremberg
78 RPM
Lena Horne
WWII Events
A calendar of present-day happenings
GIs
One man’s or woman’s war
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