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Gotta laugh. WWII, a landing craft, beach landing, explosions in distance, in moments you will be fighting for your life. So what do you do? Pull out a map to go over landing assignments? Write a letter home? Pray? Hell no, you pull out a picture of Marilyn Monroe.
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NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)My grand dad drove one of those landing crafts in the Pacific.
packman
(16,296 posts)Told the story of a Japanese soldier running into the surf and throwing a grenade into the craft putting a piece of metal in his knee.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)...yep
Unlike Gil Elvgrens pinup work, Vargas female figures were always shown on a featureless plain white background. While Vargas Girls were clothed for the most part, their very thinly-veiled eroticism made Vargas and Esquire magazine the target of censors later in the war.
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-famous-pinups.php
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)She did Playboy in '52 IIRC.
packman
(16,296 posts)the link ID it as Monroe. I'll send link a correction note. Thanks.
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)Yup.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)1940s, Colorado The Army and the pin-up girl collaborate to teach the American soldier the essentials of map reading, one of the most vital phases of knowledge in any good soldiers teaching. How it is done is demonstrated by First Sergeant Richard P. Bates of Lowry Field, who uses a pin-up girl map of Betty Grable as a visual aid in teaching the principles of map reading. The picture of the girl is divided into sections with lines, each of which is numbered, and by checking the lines on it, as on a real map, soldiers can locate any given spot knowledge which in actual combat can mean the difference between life and death.
geardaddy
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lunatica
(53,410 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)Had a big crush on him when I was 19. Of course, we shall not discuss how long ago.that was.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)And, yes. I know what you mean. That's when he was in Star Wars. Princess Leia had him pegged as a bad boy scoundrel, which is why, of course, she let him kiss her.
I should be careful. I might get pegged as a sexist or something.
rurallib
(62,423 posts)maybe this wasn't D-Day. The point is she was probably too young and not really known at the time.
DavidG_WI
(245 posts)Get ready to survive or die.