FReeper Canteen~World War II Pinups~June 28, 2006

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World War II PINUPS The most famous of all? Check out Betty Grable. War movie buffs will remember actor Robert Strauss (playing "Animal") in Stalag 17, professing undying love for a tattered picture of Betty. Or the scene in Patton when "Ole Blood 'n Guts" (played by George C. Scott) tears a pinup off a wall with his riding crop during an inspection. Whether tacked on a barracks wall in some dreary camp in Britain, folded into a tiny square inside a wallet that crossed European and Pacific battlefields, or merely secreted away as a prized possession in a POW camp, pinups afforded the GI a glimpse of American (and, yes, English) beauty, however remote, wherever they were. Even the German at the radar site in Saving Private Ryan, in his litany of Americanisms, utters "Betty Grable ...great gams.The Barracks Wall

Not just any picture of Betty, but this picture , was probably the number one pinup of World War II. This image was reproduced on the noses of hundreds of bombers, and tens of thousands of Airmen, sailors, GIs, and marines, far from home, listened to American songs broadcast by Tokyo Rose, and gazed wistfully at her million-dollar gams.

Many people pitched in to do their job during World War II. Among them were entertainers like Bob Hope, who traveled to military bases and outposts bringing laughter, an entertainment troop, and at least one beautiful girl. His reason? To raise the morale of the boys fighting for their country. Hope had the right idea. Lana Turner, known as the "sweater girl," was one of the beautiful women who sometimes accompanied Hope--and brought hope. But it wasn't every day that the enlisted men could get this type of entertainment from Hope or other entertainers, such as Glen Miller, whose popular wartime song, "Peggy, the Pin-Up Girl," explained why these beautiful women were important to the morale of the GIs. According to a well-publicized wartime survey, the top five favorite pin-up girls of World War II included actresses Dorothy Lamour ("the Sarong girl") and Jane Russell. The legs of Betty Grable, the undisputed queen of the wartime pin-up girls, were insured through Lloyd's of London for more than $1 million. The other two were Lana Turner, who was discovered in Schwab's Drugstore on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, and Rita Hayworth. Airport Journal

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Good Night Ma!
Goodnight Canteeners and Troops!
God Bless and keep you always!!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Maybe you'd better not!
LOL
Star showed me a couple and we nixed 'em!
Ms.B

[BIGLOOK]

Good night Little Devil.....stay out of the rain.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

*HUG*
See you tomorrow nite!
Ms.B

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night, ms b, and sleep well.
Thanks for all you do for our troops.

[SandRat]

Independence Day Poster (Color)

Independence Day Poster (Color). This poster is 7.5x10 inches @ 300 ppi and was created by Patrick Harris of the Air Force News Agency. Air Force Link does not provide printed posters but assistance can be provided in acquiring posters through your servicing DAPS. A PDF version for printing on office printers is also available. Requests can be made to art@afnews.af.mil. Please specify the title and number.

[SandRat]

OK I'm tired....

Good-Nite.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, Graymatter.....beautiful pinup!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and sleep well, Sand. Thanks for helping honor our troops. And thank you for your service to this great country of ours.

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"No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America.  Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly..." -- George Washington (letter to Benjamin Lincoln, 29 June 1788)

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning fellow cubevillians!

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

God bless and keep safe our troops worldwide.

Good night.

Statler Brothers ~ How Great Thou Art

[Pusterfuss]

Good morning Kathy.

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Morning, Kathy. How's it going?

A very pleasant good morning to everyone at the Canteen and to all our military at home and abroad. Thanks for your contuined service to our country.

[E.G.C.]

Morning, SandRat. How's it going?

[humblegunner]

What a good GizzerPupper!

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Tonk. How's it going?

[tomkow6]

Mine!

[tomkow6]

Mine!