The images here are generally closely aligned with the general goals of the original project described in Subsection A, but become more creative and a bit speculative because they are not inspired by specific historical works. Instead, they are images of a type that were made or might have been made during the Second World War, and aren’t critical or subversive of the original subject matter or the party who made it, whether for good (the Allied images) or bad (the Axis image).
Literature Section “07-04-C Plausible WW2 Images”—Accompanying Images: 1702-1703, 1718, 1725-1726—Published 2025-07-09 to 07-12—©2025 The Remainderman. This is a work of fiction, not a book of suggestions. It’s filled with fantasies, idiots, and criminals. Don’t believe them or imitate them.
1702 07-04 Nurses are Heroes, Nurses are always needed—2025-07-09. Chastity, Hellinore, Penance; recruiting poster; compare https://www.pinterest.com/pin/376472850079087870/. I liked this as a way to use Penny and Chas in a broader and more favorable role than spies or wannabe men, and combine them with Hellinore, who in this incarnation would be a prominent person in British Society and/or a press sensation as a successful minister supporting the war effort with her sermons.
1703 07-04 Batonnoir Sisters USO Camp Shows, Foxhole Circuit, Manila Philippines 1945-02-21 gig poster—2025-07-10. Penance & Chastity; gig poster. I did not find any gig or other U.S.O. event announcement flyers or posters per se online; but it seems reasonable they likely would have had some. There were magazine ads and posters advertising the locations of U.S.O. clubs inside the United States, there were photos of specific U.S.O. events, and there were U.S.O. fundraising posters, which I considered when styling this image. Although the U.S.O. later adopted a more-or-less standard logo, there was no evidence of that in WW2; the initials would be displayed in different fonts, different colors, different positions, with different images, etc. across different images. But there were examples very similar to the U.S.O. initials here. This advertises a show in a part of Manila after the US had taken it back, but while the battle for the city and surrounds continued to rage on nearby. This is consistent with the accounts of U.S.O. shows very close to the front lines and the fact a number of U.S.O. entertainers were killed during the war while involved in entertaining the troops.
1718 07-04 For God and Country—2025-07-11. Hellinore; propaganda poster; compare http://vintageposterblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ww2-odd.jpg and https://www.pinterest.com/pin/435652963923443375/. This is one that came a bit out of left field, although there are a handful of religious propaganda posters from the US and UK as shown at the links. Since Hellinore’s priesthood is/will be important to her in the story, I didn’t want to minimize it in this project; and I liked this image when it popped up.
1725 07-04 London Life 1942 calendar (REGULAR EDITION)—2025-07-12. Fang; pinup calendar. This is based on a thousand pinup calendars from the 1930s/40s/50s. Search for, e.g., “pinup calendars of the 1940s” for hundreds of hits online. The only rare characteristic of this calendar would be the ethnicity of the pinup. Although there are a few examples on line of 1930s and WW2 era Asian pinups, see, e.g., https://animalia-life.club/qa/pictures/asian-pin-up-art, I could not find any context on them including what countries they might have been printed in. Although, having some knowledge of the male condition, I find it hard to imagine there weren’t at least some underground images serving every interest and population around. Unlike later calendars, most of the 1940s calendars didn’t have different images for each month (Esquire and some magazines seemed to be the exception). Rather, a lot of them were intended as ads promoting largely male-oriented products to male customers, especially B2B sales in the automotive and electrical areas, etc. like the later SnapOn Tools calendars. The intent was for them to be hung on walls in the workplace as a permanent customer advertisement everybody (male) in the shop liked to pause and look at before, say, ordering a new electrical or automotive part. London Life was the title of an early (1920s-1940s) magazine that, although not really a fetish magazine, got into fetish areas especially in the reader letters section. It wound up being an inspiration for several of the pin-up and pulp artists and photographers of the 1940s-1960s. (Not to be confused with a later magazine with the same name that was published in the 1960s.)
1726 07-04 London Life 1942 calendar (SPECIAL EDITION)— 2025-07-12. Fang; pinup calendar. I couldn’t believe the AI gave me an image or two with Fang in black leather—and it even threw in what I’m going to assert is a whip. I had to use this one and decided to make it a special edition honoring the readers because of the readers’ role in the most fetishistic aspects of the magazine.