Frances Vorne, a 19-year-old New York girl who calls herself “The Shape”, wound up 1944 with perhaps the best claim to an honor publicity agents fight desperately over: the crown as Pin-Up Girl of the Year.
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Gloria Mildred DeHaven was born on July 23, 1925 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actor-director Carter DeHaven and actress Flora Parker DeHaven.
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A Pencil and a Rifle He wasn’t a general or a war correspondent with press credentials. Bill Mauldin was a rifleman — one of millions of dogfaces who trudged through Europe’s mud, slept in foxholes, and learned to laugh at misery because the only other option was to cry. Born William Henry Mauldin in Mountain
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Born Elsie Lillian Kornbrath on December 14, 1917 in Hartford, Connecticut. She studied at the Traphagen School of Fashion in Manhattan then embarked on a career in fashion design.
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Today in WWII History: May 17 – Events that occurred on this day during WWII that influenced that course of the Second World War:
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World War II Today: May 31 – Events that occurred on this day during WWII that influenced that course of the Second World War:
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World War II Today: May 30 – Events that occurred on this day during WWII that influenced that course of the Second World War:
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World War II Today: May 29 – Events that occurred on this day during WWII that influenced that course of the Second World War:
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World War II Today: May 28 – Events that occurred on this day during WWII that influenced that course of the Second World War:
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World War II Today: May 27 – Events that occurred on this day during WWII that influenced that course of the Second World War:
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