In a photo published by Life Magazine, an Arizona woman writes home to her boyfriend saying "thanks" for the skull of a dead Japanese soldier he sent to her.

Odd Present

Members of Britain's Women's Land Army in training at a Northamptonshire agricultural college, 1942, learning the tricky art of haystack management.  The corrugated iron strips at the bottom of the stack are designed to hold open a ventilation area in the bottom of the structure.  Best regards, JR.

Land Girls, 1942.

Tibetan delegates meet with a British representative in Lhasa, early 1940s. During the war, Tibet was approached both by the Allies and the Axis, who we can only assume were trying to deduce whether the locals would take up a friendly or enemy side in the event of conflict breaking out in their lands.