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Between 1941 and 1991 the comedienne Bob Hope (1903-2003) made 57 USO tours (United States Organization) entertaining the troops during WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf War. ![]()
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Actresses Jill St. John (1940-)
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Ann-Margaret (1941-)
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Marilyn Monroe ( 1926-1962) and…
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Raquel Welch (1940-2023) were among the many beauties who accompanied him no doubt, to the delight of our noble servicemen.
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On January 12, 1942, Jane Alice Peters, AKA the film actress Carole Lombard (1908-1942) after selling a record breaking $2 million dollars in War Bonds, along with her mother, Elizabeth Knight and twenty-two servicemen, was killed in a private plane fifteen minutes after take-off from a Las Vegas airport. She was 33 years old.
Her husband, the actor Clarke Gable (1901-1960), though remarried at the time of his death 18 years later, was buried beside her. ![]()
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Senator John McCain (1936-2018) was a Prisoner of War for five and a half years, two spent in solitary confinement after his plane, an A-4E Skyhawk, was shot down by a missile over Hanoi on October 26, 1967.
It was his 23rd bombing mission.
He and 108 other POWs were finally released on March 14, 1973. When he was offered to be sent home in his very first year of imprisonment, he refused to leave his men.
That always makes me cry. ![]()
