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A GLIMPSE OF NORMALCY

If anything the pin-ups that inspired a generation of aviators were quite practical. Some were exotic, to be sure, but virtually all were posed in positions that seemed quite acceptable to the gentleman's view of the era. Most were women who you could go home to, if you lived to go home at all. And that is why they formed such a central place at the frontlines of the air war. They represented hope and home. Good luck, chum, they would whisper, my dreams are riding with you.