[Servicemen sitting in room covered with pinup posters]

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Title

[Servicemen sitting in room covered with pinup posters]

Description

Photograph of two U.S. Army Air Forces servicemen sitting in the Adjutant General's Radio Message Center at Tenth Air Force Headquarters, Kunming, China, circa 1940s. The walls are covered with pinup posters of women.

Typed on verso: "Hqs. Tenth Air Force, China -- Hands down winner as the 'most pinned-up staff room' at Tenth Air Force Headquarters, Kunming, is the Adjutant General's Radio Message Center. Enlisted men of the section spent many off duty hours in the G-Eye Art Gallery selecting, trimming and arranging the pictures to make up the sex-sational mural of more than 200 pinuts [pinups]. The runner finds it distracting."

Stamped on verso: "Passed for Publication. U S. Army Press Censor. Emanuel Goldberg, [blank] Date. 61302. China Theater."

Date

1940s circa

Bibliographic Citation

The William Orthman World War II Collection/The Museum of Flight

Identifier

1991-07-17A_image_047_01
1991-07-17A_image_047_02