Miss Yourlovin: GIs, gender and domesticity during World War II

A crewman adds another mission marker to the combat tally on the fuselage of the B-17 Idiots’ Delight.

Wacs and nurses form a conga line with combat troops at a rest center in France.

Mug shot of Iva Toguri taken while she was incarcerated in Sugamo Prison.

Page from “Let’s Look at Rape,” an Army pamphlet designed to discourage sex crimes and to foster racial pride among African American troops.

An aerial view of an American bombing raid on Paris.

This cartoon captures both GIs’ possessive attitude toward enlisted women and their suspicion of officers’ purportedly roving eyes.

Lt. William Kennedy became a member of the “Luckye Bastardes Club” after completing his thirty-five-mission tour of duty.

Allied bombing raids destroyed much of Cologne.

George Baker's Sad Sack found willing women only in Germany.

The nude woman pictured on the fuselage of this B-17 drops bombs on targets below.

A pilot displays the dirty and torn but lucky trousers he wore on more than seventy-five combat missions.

Army Air Force engineers in New Guinea tracked romantic defections on this “operations board.”

GIs in Manila gather to send petitions and protests to newspapers in the United States.

Ruby Alyce was probably the sweetheart of Ice Cold Katy's pilot.

GIs march down Quezon Boulevard in Manila toward Army headquarters, protesting the demobilization slowdown.

The name Big Dick was both a boast and a reference to a roll of the dice in the game of craps.

Two GIs take advantage of their new freedom to associate with adult Germans in public spaces.

Iva Toguri reenacts her wartime radio broadcasts for an Army signal corps film crew.

Iva Toguri photographed before the microphone at Radio Tokyo in September 1945.

The crew of the B-17 Fifinella pray with their chaplain before heading on a combat mission.