The editors of the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader warned readers on August 7, 1945 that the atomic destruction of Hiroshima opened a dangerous new age.
A Coal Region editorial on the frightening new world created by the atomic bomb – August 1945
A Nazi propaganda magazine from 1945 featured photographs of a Schuylkill County mining operation
A soldier from Schuylkill County was stunned when he found photographs from the Pennsylvania Coal Region in a magazine published in Nazi Germany.
A powerful VE Day advertisement by Deisroth’s of Hazleton – May 1945
A powerfully simple advertisement ran in the Hazleton Standard-Speaker on May 9, 1945 to commemorate the victory over Nazi Germany.
