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  • Throwback Thursday: Elis in the skies

    On our April 10, 1942, cover, we featured the second unit of Naval aviators organized from among Yale students to fly in World War II. They carried... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 28 2023 04:50am

  • Throwback Thursday: summer of ’43

    Summer was anything but quiet at Yale in July 1943, when more than 7,000 students were on campus in both civilian and military programs. This photo... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 6 2023 08:00am

  • Throwback Thursday: football in wartime

    Yale starts its 150th anniversary football season this Saturday at Holy Cross. Eighty years ago, as seen on our November 1942 cover, football... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | September 15 2022 08:12am

  • Throwback Thursday: shorts subject

    In 1942, Yale was getting onto its wartime footing, which among other things meant starting the new academic year in the heat of July. When freshmen... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 18 2022 08:30am

  • Throwback Thursday: defensive mode

    We’re keenly aware of the adjustments and disruptions to Yale life that the pandemic has caused, but imagine living on a campus that was... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 27 2022 08:08am

  • Throwback Thursday: back to school

    Seventy-five years ago this fall, we showed how undergraduate life looked a little different in the aftermath of World War II, as returning veterans... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 19 2021 08:09am

  • Throwback Thursday: postwar prom

    On an April night 75 years ago, Yale students savored the return of a tradition interrupted by war: the Yale Prom. With luck and diligence, the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | April 8 2021 07:57am

  • Throwback Thursday: getting back to normal

    Seventy-five years ago, from our March 1946 issue, a scene of postwar life: returning veteran students “relaxing” (in suit and tie) with... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | February 18 2021 08:12am

  • War's end

    Saturday is VJ Day, the 75th anniversary of the Japanese surrender that ended World War II. As the wartime version of the Yale Daily News... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 13 2020 07:53am

  • Victory in Europe

    Today is the 75th anniversary of VE-Day, when German surrender in World War II was formally accepted by the Allied forces. “We have passed a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | May 8 2020 07:53am

  • D-Day remembered

    The American flag flies over Cross Campus today on the 75th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy. Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 6 2019 01:28pm

  • Throwback Thursday: uniforms

    Seventy-five years ago, the campus and our pages were filled with men in uniform. On our August 1943 cover, a civilian freshman offers a light to an... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | July 19 2018 09:03am

  • Thowback Thursday: Class Day during wartime

    From our January 1943 issue, 75 years ago. Students at Yale during World War II graduated on an accelerated schedule, which meant the Class of 1943... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 25 2018 02:07pm

  • Throwback Thursday: uniforms

    Seventy-five years ago this month, Yale had the war on its mind, but not to the complete exclusion of football. (That’s Handsome Dan V, by the... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | November 2 2017 01:46pm

  • Yale’s first casualty in World War II

    On December 1, 1941, Ensign Edward S. Gosselin ’40S wrote home to his parents from the USS Arizona. “Mother & Dad, there is a... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | December 7 2016 08:07am

  • Throwback Thursday: victory dogs

    Seventy years ago tomorrow, Japan announced its surrender in World War II, and, as documented in our October 1945 issue, the campus celebrated:... Read on
    Mark Alden Branch ’86 | August 13 2015 08:45am