I find it interesting that in April 1942, cover artists hadn’t yet started emphasizing the Nazi aspect of the Germans. This officer could easily be from WWI instead.
I find it interesting that in April 1942, cover artists hadn’t yet started emphasizing the Nazi aspect of the Germans. This officer could easily be from WWI instead.
Quite right. He looks like he’s sad to be letting the Kaiser down.
Hedy-Lamarr art by Emmett Watson.
Watson (1892-1955) “served as a cartographer in the U.S. Army during WWI and was stationed in France” (Pulpartists.com).
He might have seen ordinary Wehrmacht soldiers there but this officer here is having a monocle, which was already a sign of the nazi arrogance.
(Hedy Lamarr was a Jewish-Austrian actress who fled nazism – and also invented a techology of frequency-hopping signal for radio-controlled torpedoes, still in use today into Bluetooth).
…Per philsp.com.
I actually confirmed it at emmettwatson.com, but for some reason the tag didn’t update. Should be fixed now.
Good. Running a site like this must be quite an everyday challenge !
By the way, the weapon shown here is a Thompson Submachine gun M 1928 A1, used in the early years of WW2.
(Concerning the officer’s red collar, FoolyRain is quite right, it belongs to WW1).