Tag Archives: WWII

1943: Day Shift

Posted on August 15, 2017 by corvusfugit

Francis Criss: Day Shift (1943)

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1943: Nurse Hamaguchi

Posted on July 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

Ansel Adams: Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi (1943) From Adams’s photographs of Japanese-American internment at Manzanar (here).

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1942: Battlefields

Posted on July 11, 2017 by corvusfugit

Christopher R. W. Nevinson: Battlefields of Britain (1942) During the First World War, the painter and printmaker Christopher R. W. Nevinson served in Flanders and France as an ambulance driver with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was granted leave … Continue reading →

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1943: Hazel Ying Lee

Posted on June 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

After Hazel Ying Lee earned her pilot’s license in Portland, Oregon in 1932, she traveled to China with the hopes of joining the Chinese air force and helping to fend off growing Japanese aggression. Turned down because she was a … Continue reading →

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1940: A Strange Way for an Animal

Posted on May 28, 2017 by corvusfugit

“The most common voluntary activity….is, by a long shot, participating in experiences that we know are not real. When we are free to do whatever we want, we retreat to the imagination—to worlds created by others, as with books, movies, … Continue reading →

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1943: Lena Horne Doesn’t Entertain Racism

Posted on May 21, 2017 by corvusfugit

From Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes (2000): Al Duckett, a freelance journalist during World War II, recounts the following story about Lena Horne: “She had been sent to a camp in the south to entertain the troops. She was scheduled to … Continue reading →

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