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World War II Images. Advanced Placement United States History Mr. Greg Oppel, NBCT Edmond Memorial High School. OKCHE Members, there is controversial gender and race content in this PowerPoint. I used in AP classes so be mindful about your audience.
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World War II Images Advanced Placement United States HistoryMr. Greg Oppel, NBCTEdmond Memorial High School
OKCHE Members, there is controversial gender and race content in this PowerPoint. • I used in AP classes so be mindful about your audience. • Please debrief your students about the Japanese stereotypes. • Thanks for putting up with my disclaimer!
Themes: Women • Family • Daughters, Mothers, Wives • Femininity • Allure, Insignificance, Vulnerability • Military service • Active duty, Volunteers • Sexual objects • Girlfriends, Pin-ups
Pin Ups • Coined by Life magazine • Featured Dorothy Lamour • Later Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth become preeminent
Betty Grable • Actress • Top 10 for 10 yrs • Highest paid • Singer • Pin-up gams
A Yank in the R.A.F. (26-Sep-1941) • Tyrone Power is a pilots' pilot, but he doesn't believe in anything beyond his own abilities. He gets into trouble by flying a new fighter directly to Canada instead of to New York and letting it be towed across as the law demands, but is offered a new job ferrying bombers to war torn England. While on a layover he finds Betty Grable, an old flame, has joined the RAF as a WREN in her attempt to fight for democracy. Power joins up to impress her and in the course of his several missions begins to develop an understanding of what they are fighting for.
Pin-Up Girl (25-Apr-1944) • Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.
Alluding to Rita's bombshell status, in 1946 her likeness was stencilled on the first nuclear bomb to be tested in the Marshall Islands, part of Operation Crossroads.
