Margie Stewart, the mahogany-haired ingenue who graced millions of morale-boosting posters during World War II as the U.S. military’s official pinup, died of pneumonia April 26 at a hospital in ...

Margie Stewart was born on Dec. 14, 1919, in Wabash, Ind. She attended Indiana University for a year and was elected freshman princess, a title that included a free trip to Chicago.

Margie Stewart, who has died aged 92, was the official US Army poster girl during the Second World War, with millions of her pin-up photos distributed to American GIs around the world.