Life Magazine – January 17, 1918 (# 1838) – Aviation and flying

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Cover : Flaming German plane falling from the sky after having been shot down by Allied airplane (silhouetted in front of moon), “A shooting star,” signed but ink too dark on this copy to read the signature.

– AVIATION NUMBER (much pertaining to flight, flying, pilots, airplanes and airships).

– Full page color ad for Woodbury Facial soap (with art).

– Full page black and white ads for Biddle Motor Car Company (in the training camps or at the front …), Nujol for constipation (Standard Oil Company), Packard Motor Car Company (all text), Republic Tires, Federal Tires (with photo of crowded Fifth Avenue in New York City), Macbeth Lens (two pages, car headlights with green hoods).

– Full page art or cartoon art by E. N. Clark (Deutschland uber Allies : why stop with the earth?), F. T. Richards (two pages, a review of 1917), Charles Dana Gibson (Uncle Sam with a noose around the neck of Hohenzollern, Peace Preliminaries), Harrison Cady (A busy morning with the Beetleburgh fliers … cute aviation art)

– Two page centerspread art by Harry Grant Dart (Really excellent spread of cool aircraft, 1920?).

– Some current events include : Building ships and sending troops to France are big business right now, National coal bargains, Censored stories from the front in the local newspapers.

– Small photos of fatherless French children : Leon Perignon (Baby 775), Lucie Chevaux (Baby 655), Germaine Chevaux (Baby 654) and their sister, Albert Jean Lappart (Baby 1674) and his sister Clementine Lappart.

– And much, much more.