There was nothing out of the ordinary about the Time magazine issue that hit newsstands on June 7, 1943. The cover illustration showed Arthur “Bomber” Harris, the irascible RAF Commander then leading the Allied bombing campaigns against Nazi Germany, bringing the hammer down on a crumbling swastika. Inside the magazine, between warmongering advertisements—Caterpillar Tractor Company: “Maybe you overlooked this machine when you planned your world conquest, Adolf”—there were digestible reports from the war’s many battlefronts; requests for readers to buy war bonds and war stamps; a report on “the new wonder drug” Penicillin; a long obituary of Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company; and a capsule review of the latest morale-boosting turkey, Action in the North Atlantic, starring Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey.
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