INVADER. May 27, 1940. The caption overlays the image like a transparency, putting a meaning on it. The INVADER is a German soldier; he stands for strength and aggression. The date is a caption; this is before Pearl Harbor, before intervention, the Final Solution, before Normandy, the Bulge, before Dresden, before surrender, division, the Cold War, and all that followed. 10 cents is a caption—an economy, now quaint, wherein a thin dime still had value. LIFE is a caption, recalling an era when the magazine still commanded attention. Lastly falls this caption, and suggests that all that came before was what it was, but was also, however faintly, about meaning.