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American GIs

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. Pinups > Lena Horne, the most popular pinup among black soldiers. Chronology > Some key events of World War II.

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American GIs

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  1. American GIs

  2. Pinups > Betty Grable

  3. Pinups > Betty Grable and Her Bombardiers in All-Star Bond Rally

  4. Pinups > Pinups come to life in All-Star Bond Rally

  5. Pinups > Lena Horne, the most popular pinup among black soldiers

  6. 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

  7. Experience > Cartoon from Yank: The Army Weekly, 1943

  8. Experience > American soldier killed by mortar fire, 1944

  9. 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.”

  10. Experience > Ben Hurwitz, inside a troop ship, 1943

  11. Experience > Ben Hurwitz, going home after a pass in Naples, 1943

  12. Experience > Ben Hurwitz, on mules in the Apennines, guns taken apart, 1943

  13. Experience > Ben Hurwitz, full moon, 1944

  14. Experience > “True Towel Tales,” towel ad, 1943

  15. Experience > An African American GI escorts captured German soldiers

  16. Morale > Frank Capra, The Negro Soldier, 1942

  17. Morale > Anti-Nazi poster, 1942

  18. Morale > Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo on Collier’s cover, 1942

  19. Morale > OWI short Justice, 1945

  20. Buchenwald > Bodies of victims in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp

  21. Buchenwald > Six-year-old orphan wearing a Buchenwald badge

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