Eighty years ago, a quirk of fate saw a 1943 pin-up photo of film star Betty Grable smiling coyly over her right shoulder become a Second World War icon.
The picture went off to war in the survival kits of around one in 12 Allied servicemen.
Grable (1916-73) was proud to be a pin-up girl. She saw pin-ups as an inspiration for those without a woman in their lives back home.
Her own pin-up accentuated her famous legs, which had
