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  2. Pin-ups of Yank, the Army Weekly - Wikipedia

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    The Statue of Liberty featured as the "Yank pin-up girl" at the end of the war. The women who posed for the pin-ups included both famous and unknown actresses, dancers, athletes, and models. Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth, the most famous pin-up models of World War II, both appeared in Yank pin-ups. Grable appeared in June 1943 wearing a ...

  3. Chili Williams - Wikipedia

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    Marian Uhlman [1] (née Sorenson; December 16, 1921 – October 17, 2003), known as Chili Williams or the Polka Dot Girl, was an American pin-up model and actress. A photograph of her wearing a polka-dot two-piece bathing suit appeared in Life magazine in 1943 and became one of the most popular pin-up photographs of World War II.

  4. Yank, the Army Weekly - Wikipedia

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    Collage of Yank pin-ups, published in the final issue, December 28, 1945. 4. Ingrid Bergman was the Pin-up Girl on 16 March 1945. 5. Deanna Durbin was the Pin-up Girl on 19 January 1945. 6. The Statue of Liberty featured as the Pin-up Girl at the end of World War II. 7.

  5. Nose art - Wikipedia

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    The largest known work of nose art ever depicted on a World War II-era American combat aircraft was on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, tail number 44-40973, which had been named "The Dragon and his Tail" of the USAAF Fifth Air Force 64th Bomb Squadron, 43d Bomb Group, in the Southwest Pacific, flown by a crew led by Joseph Pagoni, with Staff ...

  6. Sentimental Journey (aircraft) - Wikipedia

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    Sentimental Journey in flight in Mesa, Arizona in January 2009 Sentimental Journey, close-up of nose art. Chico Air Museum, September 2021. Sentimental Journey (44-83514) is the nickname of a B-17G Flying Fortress bomber. It is based at the Commemorative Air Force Museum in Mesa, Arizona, US. [3]

  7. King Nine Will Not Return - Wikipedia

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    This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead, and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning, she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in the wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she ...

  8. Dusty Anderson - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, she was one of a number of actresses who became a pin-up girl, appearing in the October 27, 1944, issue of the United States Military's YANK magazine. Anderson was featured in the mystery films Crime Doctor's Warning (1945), which was one in the popular Crime Doctor series, and The Phantom Thief (1946), from the Boston ...

  9. Gale Robbins - Wikipedia

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    Pin-up photo of Robbins for Yank, the Army Weekly in 1944. Robbins "attended the Vera Jones Modeling School and posed for many magazine covers and ads." [1] A 1941 newspaper article described her as "the famous model whose face has appeared on the covers of many leading magazines, and whose eyes and teeth are the trademarks respectively of Murine and Iodent."