Description
LIFE Magazine – December 9, 1946 features Lt. Col. Donald Hillman on the cover beside a P-80 Shooting Star, one of America’s first operational jet fighters. The image captures the excitement of the early jet age and gives this issue strong appeal for collectors interested in aviation, military history, and postwar technology.
Inside, LIFE covers the expanding world of jet aviation along with major stories from postwar America and Europe. The issue includes a dramatic Swiss Alpine plane-crash rescue, the deepening coal strike, the final journey of the Normandie to the scrap yard, German scientists working in the United States, captured Japanese wartime planning documents, French gastronomy, theater, football, and the enduring political legacy of Huey Long.
Inside This Issue
- P-80 Jet Fighters — LIFE photographs the U.S. Army Air Forces’ new generation of jet aircraft
- Lt. Col. Donald Hillman — Jet pilot featured on the cover
- Swiss Alpine Rescue — Survivors of a plane crash are rescued from the Alps
- Coal Strike Deepens — John L. Lewis and the national labor confrontation
- Nazi Scientists in the U.S. — German scientists working on American military research
- Japanese War Plans — Captured documents reveal Japan’s wartime strategic thinking
- Normandie — The famous French ocean liner makes her final trip to the scrap yard
- Huey Long — Hamilton Basso examines the continuing legend of the Louisiana political figure
- Lou Groza — LIFE profiles one of football’s leading kickers
- French Gastronomy — Bernard Frizell explores France’s celebrated culinary tradition
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 27 The Week’s Events: Plane–Crash Survivors Rescued in Alps
Pg… 32 The Week’s Events: Editorial: Labor and the Law
Pg… 33 The Week’s Events: RFC Carries On
Pg… 34 The Week’s Events: Coal Strike Deepens
Pg… 36 The Week’s Events: U.S. Sergeant Runs Bremen Boys Club
Pg… 38 The Week’s Events: “Normandie” Makes Her Last Trip
Pg… 40 The Week’s Events: St. Paul Teachers Strike
Pg… 43 The Week’s Events: People
Pg… 77 The Week’s Events: Japanese War Plans are Revealed
Pg… 57 Articles: Gastronomy, by Bernard Frizell
Pg… 106 Articles: The Huey Long Legend, by Hamilton Basso
Pg… 98 Photographic Essay: P–80s, Photographs by Charles Steinheimer
Pg… 49 Science: Nazi Scientists in U.S.
Pg… 71 Theater: “Another Part Of The Forest”
Pg… 80 Modern Living: Christmas Trimmings
Pg… 87 Sports: Top Kicker
Pg… 91 Housing: Cinderella Girl
Pg… 123 Movies: “Stairway to Heaven”
Pg… 4 Other Departments: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 14 Other Departments: Speaking of Pictures: Cartoonist Dahl Ribs Boston
Pg… 19 Other Departments: LIFE’s Reports: Notes from Sweden, by Wilfrid Fleisher
Pg… 128 Other Departments: LIFE Calls on a Retired General
Pg… 134 Other Departments: LIFE’s Miscellany: Hollywood Dunking
