So Allie and I just finished watching the final season of "The Man in the High Castle", an alternate history of what might have been if the Axis won WW2. The show is based on a 1962 novel with the same premise by Phillip K. Dick. But dire prognostications about "what could happen" if America lost were happening almost 20 years before Dick published his work.

To me, American Locomotive is the king of terrifyingly dark WW2 advertising. They had a run of various adverts in 1943 that are designed to shock the reader with the consequences of defeat and inspire (or coerce) them into throwing their full support behind the war effort.

I am aware of 6 advertisements, all of which I have collected and presented here. While all are striking, the most stark to me the one where we the viewer are staring down the barrels of a Japanese firing squad while the rising sun flies over the capitol building.
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Do any of these give you the willies, even just a little bit, despite WW2 being so far in the past?

On this day (14 November) in 1965 elements of the United States Army's 1st Cavalry division conducted the first large scale helicopter air assault in history by landing in the Ia Drang valley in the central highlands South Vietnam. Their goal was to fix in place and destroy North Vietnamese Army regiments believed to be in the area.