Little did anyone know that later on in the war the Nazi's would use this cover image in its propaganda machine. The cover was turned into an 8 page leaflette that was to be dropped over US bases to discourage our soldiers from fighting. Within the leaflette were photos of dead US and British Airmen.
The original 'LIFE' contains many articles. One of these is about the 8th airforce in England and shows one photograph and several drawings. The text tells about the achievements against the Germans.
One of the statements made in the text:
'Since the U.S. aerial operations started, 1,199 German fighters have been destroyed with a loss of only 276 American bombers'.
Maybe this sentence or a similar one from the article, caused the Nazis to prepare a special fake copy for airdropping over the UK based 8th U.S. Army Air force .....
The fake LIFE consists of a 'poster' size sheet of paper that is folded in such a way that it looks like an ordinary magazine. But when opening to page 3, the reader finds that he has to unfold the complete poster to be able to read on.
You can view the remaining poster pages here.
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