05/05/2026
Armchair General (1944) by Norman Rockwell was the cover of the Saturday Evening Post of April 29, 1944.
The man is listening to the radio for any news about WWII. On the top right are three blue stars with three photographs, telling us that he has three sons who are currently deployed. It’s April 29, and the American flag on the map is planted in England, and it is still more than a month before D-Day (June 6), when France would be invaded by the Americans and their allies. On the wall behind him are images of Generals MacArthur and Eisenhower, and the father here may identify well with them, carefully tracking any developments of the war.