Newsboy Photo Satisfactorily Dated to 11/30/1944

This is an update on my earlier post on The Newsboy: OSS CBI Photobook 7 - Further Outtakes - The Newsboy.  Our EJZ was in Washington DC in November 1944, training with Field Photo.

Below is the photo I call The Newsboy.

                      

The closeup shows us the headline and the illustration by which we try to date the photo.

"ALLIED ARMIES AT LAST BARRIER SHORT OF RHINE"
and in the photo, a man leans over to examine some smashed thing.
What is it?

Metz fell to the Americans and Allies on 11/25/44.  To the east of Metz is the Saar River, oriented north-to-south.  The next river east of the Saar is the Rhine.

So let's say the Saar is the "Barrrier" and the Armies are at it.

From Metz to the Saar is 20-25 miles.  At 10 miles a day, that would take 2 or 3 days, say 11/28/44.

On arrival, news would be sent through the censors and travel by teletype to Stateside newsrooms.  Two days?  If so, the newspaper publication date is 11/30/44.

Also, the smashed thing, the mystery object, is a V-2 rocket, probably crashed on a London street.  From the Wiki piece:

The Germans themselves finally announced the V-2 on 8 November 1944 and only then, on 10 November 1944, did Winston Churchill inform Parliament, and the world, that England had been under rocket attack “for the last few weeks."

So that November, the V-2s were a big part of the latest news stories.


Ricochet people taught me all these particulars.  I'm grateful.