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Bob
Hope's extraordinary story began in May, 1941, when he and a group of performers
broadcast a radio show from California's March Field for the airmen stationed
there. From then on, with only two exceptions, throughout World War II
all of his radio shows were performed and aired from military bases and
installations, in the United States and the theaters of war in Europe and
the South Pacific. He entered the combat area for the first time in 1943
when he and his small USO troupe, consisting of Frances Langford, Tony
Romano and Jack Pepper, traveled to U.S. military facilities in England,
Africa, Sicily and Ireland. In later years his itinerary included the South
Pacific. |
