Addison Beecher Colvin “Cal” Whipple, war correspondent who became a Washington reporter for Life magazine in 1943, died on St. Patrick’s Day. Cal was responsible for publishing a controversial “Picture of the Week” in Life in 1943, next to an editorial about the reality of World War II. “War Bond sales skyrocketed; and the [government’s] censorship rule was abolished.”
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Lucian Whipple’s World War II Experiences Flying over Germany
Bennett Whipple of Big Canoe, GA, forwarded me this account of his brother Lucian’s “experiences flying over Germany during World War II as a waist gunner on a B-24 from the 448th Group Air Base at Seething, England.” (The letter came to Bennett via email dated July 26, 2000.)
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