DescriptionWilliam-Hood-Simpson-LIFE-1945.jpg	English: Front cover of the March 12, 1945, issue of Life magazine, featuring a photograph of Lieutenant General William Hood Simpson, commander of the U.S. Ninth Army in Europe
Date	12 March 1945
Source	Google books
Author	Time Inc.; photograph by William Vandivert
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• Information about the cover appears on page 20, reading as follows:
  LIFE'S COVER
  Lieut. General William Hood Simpson, commander of the Ninth Army at the Rhine (see pages 25–29) is an old soldier: tough-minded, dependable and confident. He is a tall man, lean and immaculately dressed. The most arresting thing about his appearance is his remarkable head. It is a head that reminds people of Biblical prophets, medieval ascetics and ancient Egyptian kings. Wrote a LIFE correspondent, "At first glance it seems so bony, so cadaverously lean that you think of it as a friendly skull."
• Photographer William Vandivert is credited on page 23.

LIFE issues from Volume 16 Number 1 through Volume 18 Number 13 are in public domain as their copyright was not renewed. This issue is Volume 18, Number 11.

• 1971: copyright renewal for Volume 15
• 1972: absence of copyright renewal for Volumes 16 and 17
• 1973: absence of copyright renewal for the first half of Volume 18; copyright renewal resumes with Volume 18 Number 14