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If you're still following this thread, I'm wondering if you ever followed the link I put up at 6:10 pm, to examples of the WWII "V for Victory" graphics that you requested.
Wish I could just post graphics here, but here's that link again:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1575100894/ref=sib_dp_pt/105-2833579-2458868
Click "Surprise me" for random pages, many showing images similar to the logo on the hideous Hewitt's blog. There's not a single iconic poster that I know of, but many images (on posters, pins, and so on) that share the same bold sans-serif "V" emblazoned with the word "Victory," often with military images of planes in V-formation, diverging searchlight beams, etc.
This is pretty tangential to the substantive conversation that's been going on here, but I think interesting in itself. We've come a long way from the idealistic emotions of that war, to the cynical manipulation of the "Victory" meme by today's right-wingers.
