Then, starting in December of 1940, you only get military themed covers. Between December of 1940 and December 1945, you get exactly two non-military images on the covers (Jun 1944 and Mar 1945), but both have prominent war themed text on them. January 1946 is the first fully civilian cover in over 5 years.
It really makes me realize how distant war seems to us now, even though the US has been involved in international wars for most of the last 60 years. Imagine if PopSci had images of Iraq and Afghanistan on the cover of every issue today.
The difference between WWII and the wars of the next 60 years is that WWII was one the people rallied behind. The American people have never supported a war since then.
Some accounts of history don't have Americans backing the war until 1942. It could indeed be that WWII changed the way we looked at war and little to do with popular support.
The classified ads in the back bring back memories (1980s-1990s): Plans for building a jetpack, helicopters, hovercraft, tv descramblers,
"plasma fire sabers", "ion ray guns", "blaster defense weapon". A boy can dream can't he?
I've still got the paper copy. Though it was perhaps another year before I actually touched a Mac in person (at, I believe, a department store -- they sold computers in those days) and five years before I could afford one.
Having a subscription to PopSci in the late 70s-early 80s was like reading Gizmodo or Engadget today. Every month was filled with magical things that you wouldn't see in person for months or years.
Optical discs! Fuel injected cars! Weird crap from DAK!
