World War 2: A NAZI fake of a 'LIFE' magazine

"LIFE" is the title of a well-known glossy American magazine that circulates all over the world. It was also the title of an 8-page folder dropped by German planes over a few U.S. air bases in East Anglia, including Lakenheath, during the autumn of 1943. The front page was an actual reproduction of the true LIFE issue for July 26, 1943, with pictures of 8th Air Force crews but the remaining seven pages showed gruesome and horrifying pictures of aircrews who had been killed over Germany, together with many speeches, reports and quotations on the subject of the air bombing of the Third Reich. It is thought that this mini-magazine was produced to bring home to the Americans the awful disaster of the Schweinfurt raids when 198 U.S. bombers were lost out of 291 taking part. Very little information indeed seems to be available about this particular fake magazine and those copies that were not confiscated by the American authorities on base were undoubtedly 'collected' by U.S. personnel and taken home to the States. The only two copies known were once in the collection of the president of the Psywar Society, Captain P.H. Robbs. No mention of the incident appeared in the contemporary national press.
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