Peak of Influence.

The military press reached its historic high in numbers and influence during World War II. From the beginning of U.S. involvement in the war, thousands of publications sprang up in training camps, battlefronts, and strategic locations around the world to report the news of home and the war, keep up morale, and propagandize the war effort.

Hammett.

Many newspapers were printed in small, out of the way places. Many of these were mimeographed. The Adakian was one of these small papers, edited and printed at the army base in Adak, Alaska, under the leadership of Cpl. Dashiell Hammett. Hammett, a novelist well known for his detective stories, saw the first issue published on 19 January 1944. Among the staff members who worked on the paper during its nearly two-year run was Bernard Kalb, who later became a well-known print and television journalist...