August 11, 1941. Margarita Carmen Cansino in Life Magazine.

American and British senior military leaders discussed the joint conduct of war against Nazi Germany for the first time at the conference at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. The United States, of course, was not yet a declared belligerent in the war.

Which doesn't mean that the US wasn't a participant in it.  The US was, as we've noted here before, highly active in escorting into the Atlantic, if not across it, and at this point had aircraft operating out of Iceland and Northern Ireland in that effort.

Aircraft of the Soviet Air Forces, embarrassed by the Soviet Navy's raid on Berlin a few days prior, raided Berlin itself with heavy bombers in a raid which could hardly be regarded as successful and sustained high losses.

Rita Hayworth appeared on the cover of Life Magazine in a négligée. 

Hayworth in 1946.

The photograph is interesting in part because it was hardly salacious. While she is in négligée, it's pretty conservative to say the least.  Moreover, she was on the cover in a conservative bikini, which of course even if conservative, is a bikini.  The pose, on top of a bed, may have been the most salacious thing about it.  The photo ent on to become the second most popular pinup of the World War Two era.

Hayworth was born to a Spanish father and an Irish/English extraction mother in the United States, and her real name was Margarita Carmen Cansino.  By 1941 she was already an entertainment veteran.  She never graduated from high school as she was already working at the time, having completed no more than a grade 9 education, and in later years she'd tell Orson Welles, one of a string of spouses, that her father had abused her as a child.

Hayworth as a dancer at age 12, before her Spanish ancestry was de-emphasized.

Her name was changed after she began to have some early roles in film as the movie industry found both her name and her dark hair too "Mediterranean".  Indeed, not only was her named changed (she adopted her mother's maiden name) but her hairline was too, by electrolysis, giving her the famous looks that she had throughout the main part of her career.

Hayworth in 1935, before efforts were made to change her appearance.

Hayworth defined a certain type of glamour in her era, and lived a fairly typical Hollywood life which included a string of marriages.

The entire Haywood story, put back in the context of the times, is a mirror on our society, a bit, to the present day.  She was a teenaged actress when she first appeared in movies, by which time she'd already been in entertainment for years and years.  Abused sexually as a child, she'd have a string of marriages, all stories that we could expect to read today.  Nonetheless, she was regarded as glamorous and the public didn't hold her domestic troubles against her in any fashion during her career.  The public also didn't find her Life Magazine illustration shocking, but the troops found it pinup worthy.  Decency standards has obviously moved substantially in the 20th Century in terms of what was regarded as a decent depiction, including what was regarded as decent to wear.  Her swimsuit on the cover of Life would have been regarded as indecent in the early 1920s, but that had already changed by the mid 1930s.