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The Tragic Love Story of Double Agent Dagmar Lahlum

After watching Triple Cross earlier in the week, I couldn’t resist looking into the story behind the movie and finding

After last week’s disappointment watching Citizen Kane I was delighted to discover a real gem this week. Don’t be put

During World War 2, the American Magazine for GI’s (called YANK would you believe?) featured a number of fabulous pin-ups

It’s spring, and so of course my thoughts have returned to Paris, the beautiful city of blossom and boulevards, baguettes

WW2 factory girls working on military aircraft in 1940s America. [4 photos]

I know industrial accidents are no laughing matter, but I’d seriously never considered a need for breast-protecters before (as modelled

Yeah yeah, I know you’re off to war, but you know you haven’t FED ME YET? This photo was taken

English: Original studio publicity photo of Cary Grant for the film I Was a Male War Bride (1949). Doesn’t he

Beautifully dressed pin-up girls waiting to be asked to dance at the NAS Seattle Spring Formal Dance in 1944. Who

Edward Steichen is best known (at least to me) as being one of the main photographers for Vogue and Vanity

Pin up photo of Sherry Britton wearing a fabulous bikini dress from the December 1945 issue of Yank, the Army

Norma Jean Dougherty (who later became Marilyn Monroe) photographed for US Army magazine YANK on June 26 1945. There’s no

American sailors photographed with their tattoos in 1944 Source and copyright: This file is a work of a sailor or

Above: A welder works on the deck of a new ship, Tyneside, 1943 A new exhibition opens at the Imperial

Project #42 on Independent Fashion Bloggers is to create a Festival Look. I know that lots of people will go

1940s photo American GIs in front of the Eiffel Tower watching the Tricolore flag flying again after the liberation of