Puzzle Description:

What is our aim? … Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. --Winston Churchill, Speech in House of Commons, May 1940

#1: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Aug 6, 2010

very nice
an easy infrapinklizzard puzzle
wow

great puzz!

it took me awhile to solve ...thanks for entry, Joe

Started fast and finished slow. The center of the face, in particular, took some puzzling.

Good!

I like this one, both the solving and the image. I knew what the image was going to be as soon as I saw the title of the puzzle(s), but this one was executed in an unexpected way.

Very good puzzle

Thanks, all. There were quite a few photos of him making the V-for-victory gesture, and one with him holding his hand back-outwards. I wonder if he was flipping off the photographer as that's Britain's equivalent of the bird. (Or was it back then?)

When I was drawing it I was afraid it might be too easy with the large areas of black, but it became nicely complex in the center.

Nicely complex is right. I enjoyed this puzzle, both in the solving and seeing the final image.

The backwards-victory gesture well predates WWII. The French army at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) threatened to cut the index and middle fingers off the English longbowmen, preventing them from ever drawing a bowstring again. The English won the battle and showed off their two fingers, still intact.

So, it started as a taunt toward the French. I'm not surprised.

dang ...us men need some of those fingers today :D

Frantstic image and subject. At first I thought it was the Peanut Man icon, and then I was guessing, Abe Lincoln. It wasn't until I was almost done that I realized who it was. Thank you so much for such a great puzzle.. Very fun solve. No guessing.

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