GREAT PHOTO ALBUM SITE AAF

[Anonymous]

The army air forces forum has a lot of interesting photos from the members and many other forums of interest with photos ,Apologies if this has already been posted


http://forum.armyairforces.com/gallery.aspx

All the best jeff .

 

[oose]

Hi Jeff,

Great site, thanks for posting, lots to look at here some shots of a nice A-2 of the 82nd BS / 12th BG.

plus another A-2 from another unit this one belongs to Roy Harpool B-17's in England don't have a unit for him.

yours stu

 

[Andrew]

Thant's a great, serious site, thanks for reminding me.

 

[TankBuster]

Great Site! I've been using it for years. They have some great info on specific units.
Alot of vets families use this one.

 

[flightmac]

That one with "Carol" Leigh" has her in a bikini. Wouldn't that be post - WWII?

 

[Anonymous]

That one with "Carol" Leigh" has her in a bikini. Wouldn't that be post - WWII?

Your right !
According to the official version, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard and fashion designer Jacques Heim in Paris in 1946 and introduced on July 5 at a fashion show at Piscine Molitor in Paris.[3] It was a string bikini with a g-string back. It was named after Bikini Atoll, the site of a nuclear weapon test called Operation Crossroads on July 1 in the Marshall Islands, on the reasoning that the burst of excitement it would cause would be like the nuclear device. Monokini, a bikini variant, derives its name, as a back formation, from bikini, interpreting the first syllable as the Latin prefix bi- "two" and substituting for it mono- "one", on the (perhaps intentionally) mistaken notion that the bi- element was the Greek prefix meaning "two". Réard's suit was a refinement of the work of Jacques Heim who, two months earlier, had introduced the "Atome" (named for its size) and advertised it as the world's "smallest bathing suit". Réard "split the 'atom'" even smaller, but could not find a model who would dare to wear his design. He ended up hiring Micheline Bernardini, a nude dancer from the Casino de Paris as his model

Catholic countries like Spain, Portugal and Italy banned the bikini. Decency leagues pressured Hollywood to keep bikinis from being featured in Hollywood movies. One writer described it as a "two piece bathing suit which reveals everything about a girl except for her mother's maiden name." Movie star Esther Williams once said: "A bikini is a thoughtless act." Brigitte Bardot helped popularize the bikini in Europe in the 1950s, but the United States took longer to adopt it. Modern Girl magazine wrote in 1957, "It is hardly necessary to waste words over the so-called bikini since it is inconceivable that any girl with tact and decency would ever wear such a thing



All the best Jeff