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Janet M. Davis

University Distinguished Teaching Professor of American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts

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A painting for the U.S. Army’s Stars and Stripes newspaper shows a downed pilot fending off sharks with a knife.

Before Shark Week and ‘Jaws,’ World War II spawned America’s shark obsession

Arts, Culture & Media

As part of the nation’s massive wartime mobilization effort, millions of Americans, for the first time, traveled abroad — where many had their first encounters with the marine predators.