A little WWII humor
Proof that the military enjoys its humor!!!!
Mymom took a lot of pictures, saved a lot of pictures, and clipped cartoons during WWII (1940’s). Here are 2 I thought you might enjoy:
The images were scanned while in the plastic protectors. Remember, these a cartoons from a 1941 newspaper. I’m not about to remove a 73 year old newspaper clipping from 43 year old plastic.
I’ll end this blog post with style, specifically the style worn by my maternal grandfather in 1940:
Posted on January 31, 2015, in Letters home, WWII and tagged family history, History, Military History, Military humor, nostalgia, WW2, WWII. Bookmark the permalink. 30 Comments.
Pacific Paratrooper 
Nice read, thank you for posting it.
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Hope you get to try one of the recipes some time.
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Great to see those! I enjoyed reading them. Little treasures like that are wonderful to have.
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Yes, they are! I spotted them on the Reader and couldn’t believe it – great find.
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I have several WWII era cards & postcards from my grandparents’ old things with these types of military humor on them. Things sure were different – and so much more patriotic! – back then. 🙂
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You are quite right about that, Rachel. But they were different times and we look back with 2015 eyes. Do you have a post or two with these postcards?
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No, but I’ll see if I can get some of them together and make one. 🙂
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Terrific!
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well for some reason you know I always love your comics whether old or new – and whew – I agree G – leave them in their precious plastic – what gems! and pretty fun stuff 🙂
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They are great, aren’t they!!
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🙂
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That was good fun, thanks for finding them.
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I DO get lucky sometimes, don’t I.
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Great piece of military humour from days when humour was funny.
Old military humour had a certain irreverence about it but boxed in respect.
Cheers
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Hey, what’s military humour if not laughing at yourself and the military as a whole? They could use a few laughs!
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Love these. Americans certainly have a sense of humor.
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As you well know, Jacqui, the military humor helps them on many levels. I love to locate their various geniuses at work creating these cartoons.
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My father, a member of the Colorado National Guard, was called into active duty with the 45th Division in 1940 It was quite an adventure for him and a lot of young men just out of high school. They spent Christmas at Fort Sill, Oklahoma before moving to Camp Barkeley in Texas. Thanks for posting the cartoons.
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I’m very glad you enjoyed them, Allan. Sometimes I get real lucky in finding this memorabilia!
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Great photos!
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Floridaborne will be glad to hear it!
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That is great stuff – thanks for sharing it.
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Glad you liked it Andrew.
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I love vintage periodicals and their humor, too.
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Great – I enjoy having something for everyone!!
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Amazing – you are the custodian of a great treasure 🙂
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I was about to say, yeah. They’re neat illustrations.
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Er…ah…spiffy….glad you enjoyed them.
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Wünsche ein schönes wee-kend lieber Gruß Gislinde
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Ziemlich sittich. Danke.
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