[4] In his book, The Pin-Up Girls of World War II, Brett Kiser wrote that Vorne was a "simple" and "modest" girl with an "awe-inspiring anatomy" who never drank alcohol, never visited night clubs, and avoided staying out late.

In 1944, a soldier friend returned home from the war and gave her remnants of a German parachute.

[5]According to an account published by the Central Press, American pilots in the Pacific planned to drop photographs of Vorne to Japanese soldiers with the inscription: "Eat your hearts out ...

[6] After the photograph appeared in the London's Daily Mirror, the British Ministry of Information sought permission to use it in "stimulating the morale of Britain's Army and Navy".

[7] In January 1945, Time magazine wrote that Vorne "wound up 1944 with perhaps the best claim to an honor publicity agents fight desperately over: the crown as Pin-Up Girl of the Year".