As part of our 250th celebration, I'll be posting selected historical cartoons from The Courant's files every Thursday. Today's is a cartoon by Reg Manning of the Arizona Republic. Henry McNulty, who is our informal historic authority on all things Courant, provides the explanation for the cartoons.
1943: The United States and Great Britain agreed on a combined bomber offensive against Nazi Germany. In this cartoon, days after German dictator Adolf Hitler's 54th birthday, he is depicted as a frightened cave man with bloody hands, fleeing allied air power as a German plane, labeled "Nazi blitz," goes down. The "United Nations" refers to America and Britain, not the multinational body created after the war.