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USO Camp shows push across perilous frontiers
Entertainers travel rough on a world tour to boost morale for 11 million armed forces. USO camp shows operate about 100 units in combat zones and 100 more at camps and bases, with stage sites improvised and transport, food, and lodging supplied by the army amid hazards from heat cold and enemy action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
Arctic
Vesuvius
Europe
War Department
Army
Pearl Harbor
USO
United Service Organizations
National War Fund
West
Fortieth Street
New York City
Ows
Broadway
Hollywood
Screen Colony
Hollywood Victory Committee
Joe E. Brown
William Gargan
Marlene Deitrich
Adolph Menjou
Paulette Goddard
Gary Cooper
Una Merkel
George Raft
Phyllis Brooks
Frederic March
Louise Allbritton
Andy Arcari
Jean Clyde
Bob Hope
Keenan Wynn
al Jolson
John Garfield
East
Africa
Army Transport Command
Iran
Army Special Services Division
Pantelleria
Egypt
Tunisia
Tran
Russia
Italy
Iran Valley
Alean Highway
Alaska
South Pacific
Sybia
Arabia