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American GIs
Pinups > Betty Grable
Pinups > Betty Grable and Her Bombardiers in All-Star Bond Rally
Pinups > Pinups come to life in All-Star Bond Rally
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Pinups > Lena Horne, the most popular pinup among black soldiers
Chronology > Some key events of World War II
• December 1941 - Pearl Harbor
• February 1942 - Executive Order mandates internment of Japanese Americans
• May-June 1942 - US wins naval superiority in the Pacific
• November 1942 - US lands in North Africa
• January 1943 - Casablanca Conference announces unconditional surrender policy
• February 1943 - Soviet victory over Germans in Stalingrad
• May 1943 - German troops surrender in Africa
• July 1943 - Allied invasion of Italy
• June-August 1944 - US lands in Normandy; liberates Paris
• November 1944 - FDR is elected to fourth term
• February 1945 - Yalta conference renews US-Soviet alliance
• February-June 1945 - US captures Iwo Jima and Okinawa
• April 1945 - FDR dies; Harry Truman becomes president
• May 1945 - Germany surrenders
• August 1945 - US drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Japan surrenders
Experience > Cartoon from Yank: The Army Weekly, 1943
Experience > American soldier killed by mortar fire, 1944
Experience > Bill Maudlin, “Up Front,” Stars and Stripes, 1945
“Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in
thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners.”
Experience > Ben Hurwitz, inside a troop ship, 1943
Experience > Ben Hurwitz, going home after a pass in Naples, 1943
Experience > Ben Hurwitz, on mules in the Apennines, guns taken apart, 1943
Experience > Ben Hurwitz, full moon, 1944
Experience > “True Towel Tales,” towel ad, 1943
Experience > An African American GI escorts captured German soldiers
Morale > Frank Capra, The Negro Soldier, 1942
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Morale > Anti-Nazi poster, 1942
Morale > Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on Collier’s cover, 1942
Morale > OWI short Justice, 1945
Buchenwald > Bodies of victims in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp
Buchenwald > Six-year-old orphan wearing a Buchenwald badge