Humorous US postcard commenting on the German's difficulties in Russia.  Best regards, JR.

Bear essentials ...

New Zealand army recruiting poster.  The contribution of this small ally, far, far away, was not insignificant, whether in the air, on the sea or (in Italy in particular) on land.  Best regards, JR.

They also served ...

San Francisco Chronicle newspaper reports the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a great President of the United States of America, in peace and in war.  Roosevelt's death, in the dying days of the war, occasioned celebration among the Nazi leadership, who thought that this might have triggered a split in the western Alliance  in the face of what (from their viewpoint) was an increasingly obvious Soviet threat to the West.  They were deluded on this point - by this time, the Western powers, as democracies, had no way, politically,  of doing an about-face to assist the Germans in resistance to the Soviets.  In any event, there was no enthusiasm at all among the Western powers for the idea of a new  war in Eastern Europe against "former" ally, the Soviet  Union, which would obviously be a formidable opponent.  That having been said, when it came to the prospect of the Soviets as a new opponent to the West, there, at least, the Nazis had a point ... Best regards, JR.