"Among a soldier's few personal belongings, none is more cherished than his 'foot-locker art.' This is his collection of photographs and drawings pinned inside the lid of the small Army trunck that stands at the foot of his cot. Besides a snapshot of his mother and maybe his sweetheart, the foot-locker gallery generally contains symbols of that powerfully attractive feminine world from which the soldier is temporarily removed. More exhuberant rookies allow this art exhibit to burst from its secret locker, and then the barrack blossoms with printed portraits of the type of beauty closest to a soldier's heart. Last month, when the editors and photographers of LIFE made an intensive survey of Army posts, they found one woman's picture outnumbering 3 to 1 all others pinned to foot-locker lids and barrack shelves. Beside her, Lana Turner and Ann Sheridan were merely runners-up. Compared to her, Artist George Petty's streamlined bathing girl was simply another also-ran. Everywhere, it seemed, an endless succession of portraits gave mute testimony that Dorothy Lamour is No. 1 pin-up girl of the U.S. Army." (p. 34)