1943 Stars & Stripes WW II newspaper NAZIS DEFEATED on EASTERN FRONT in RUSSIA

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1943 Stars & Stripes WW II newspaper NAZIS DEFEATED on EASTERN FRONT in RUSSIA
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL American WW II era Armed Forces newspaper, the
Stars and Stripes
dated Dec 28, 1943. This is the Stars and Stripes MEDITERRANEAN edition that was printed in Italy.
This newspaper has a prominent front page heading and long report on the
defeat of Nazi Germany by RUSSIA on the EASTERN FRONT in WW II
.
The battles on the Eastern Front constituted the largest military confrontation in history. They were characterized by unprecedented ferocity, wholesale destruction, mass deportations, and immense loss of life variously due to combat, starvation, exposure, disease, and massacres.
The
Eastern Front of World War II
was a
theatre
of
World War II
between the European
Axis powers
and
co-belligerent
Finland
against the
Soviet Union
,
Poland
, and some other
Allies
which encompassed
Northern
,
Southern
and
Eastern Europe
from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. It was known by many different names depending on the nation, notably the
Great Patriotic War
in the former Soviet Union, while known in Germany as the
Eastern Front
, the
Eastern Campaign
or the
Russian Campaign.
The battles on the Eastern Front constituted the largest military confrontation in history. They were characterized by unprecedented ferocity, wholesale destruction, mass deportations, and immense loss of life variously due to combat, starvation, exposure, disease, and massacres. The Eastern Front, as the site of nearly all
extermination camps
,
death marches
,
ghettos
, and the majority of
pogroms
, was central to the
Holocaust
. Of the
estimated 70 million deaths
attributed to
World War II
, over 30 million, many of the civilians, died on the Eastern Front. The Eastern Front was decisive in determining the outcome of World War II, eventually serving as the main reason for Germany's defeat. It resulted in the destruction of the Third Reich, the
partition of Germany
for
nearly half a century
and the rise of the Soviet Union as a military and industrial
superpower
.
The two principal belligerent powers were Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, along with their respective allies. Though never engaged in military action in the Eastern Front, the
United Kingdom
and the
United States
both provided substantial material aid to the Soviet Union. The Soviet–Finnish
Continuation War
may be considered the northern flank of the Eastern Front. In addition, the joint
German–Finnish operations
across the northernmost Finnish–Soviet border and in the
Murmansk region
are also considered part of the Eastern Front.
Stars and Stripes
is the
newspaper
published for the
United States Armed Forces
overseas. It is available in three formats: the European Edition, the Mideast Edition, and the Pacific Edition.
On
9 November
1861
, during the
Civil War
, soldiers of the
Illinois
11th, 18th, and 29th Regiments, after forcing the
Confederates
south, set up camp in
Bloomfield
,
Missouri
. Upon finding the newspaper office empty, they decided to print a newspaper for their expedition, relating the troop's activities. They called it the
Stars and Stripes
. Today, the
Stars and Stripes Museum / Library Association
is in Bloomfield.
In
World War I
, the staff and roving reporters and illustrators of the newspaper were veterans of the newspaper world or, more frequently, talented young soldiers who would later become famous members of the United States media in the postwar era.
Harold Ross
, the editor of the
Stars and Stripes
, returned home to found
The New Yorker
magazine.
Cyrus Baldridge
, art director and principal illustrator, later became a major illustrator of books and magazines, as well as a writer, print maker and stage designer. Drama critic
Alexander Woollcott
's essays for
Stars and Stripes
were collected in his book,
The Command Is Forward
(1919).
Stars and Stripes
was then an eight-page weekly, which reached a peak of 526,000 readers, relying considerably on the improvisational efforts of its staff to get it printed in France and to distribute it to U.S. troops.
In
World War II
, the newspaper was printed in several editions in several operating theaters. Again, both newspapermen in uniform and young soldiers, some of whom would later become important journalists, filled the staffs and showed zeal and talent in publishing and delivering the paper on time. Some of the editions were assembled and printed very close to the
front
in order to get the latest information to the most troops. Also, during the war, the newspaper published the 53-book series
G.I. Stories
.
The newspaper is the main printed source of news at the installations in
Europe
and
Mideast and East Asia
.
Stars and Stripes
has expanded to an average of 40–48 pages each day and is still published in tabloid format, reminiscent of many
British
dailies. The newspaper employs civilian reporters, and U.S. military senior noncommissioned officers as reporters, at a number of locations around the world.
After
Bill Mauldin
did his popular "Willie and Joe" cartoons for the WWII
Stars and Stripes
, he returned home for a successful career as an editorial cartoonist and two-time winner of the
Pulitzer Prize
. Former
Stars and Stripes
staffers also include
60 Minutes
’
Andy Rooney
and
Steve Kroft
, songwriter and author
Shel Silverstein
, comic book illustrator
Tom Sutton
, author and television news correspondent
Tony Zappone
, cartoonist
Vernon Grant
(
A Monster Is Loose in Tokyo
),
Hollywood
photographer Phil Stern and the late stock market reporter and host of public television's
Wall Street Week
,
Louis Rukeyser
.
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