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PM  newspaper (active 1940-1948) was a left-leaning newspaper funded by Marshall Field III, and was home to excellent reporting. Among the staff writers was I.F.Stone and staff photographers Margaret Bourke-White.  Other contributors included Heywood Hale Broun, James Thurber,  (the great) Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene Lyons, Ben Stolberg, Malcolm Cowley, Tip O’Neill, and Ben Hecht, among many other illuminati.  (PM’s stated mission: “PM is against people who push other people around.   PM accepts no advertising. PM belongs to no political party. PM is absolutely free and uncensored. PM’s sole source of income is its readers–to whom it alone is responsible. PM us one newspaper that can and dares to tell the truth.)  It so happens though that PM is a difficult newspaper to find, nowadays, and so far as I can tell very little of it lives online, which is why I’ve decided to post some of the bits of interest from the copies of the paper that I have. Today’s installment: a fine and illuminating map of the seat of war in Europe, published at the end of the on May 8, 1945, showing the advance of victory. Whoever their cartographer was did a superior job.  (Note: double clicking into the map will open a very large and bright version of the map.)