How the USO brought a little bit of Hollywood to the boys serving overseas.

Comedian and actor Bob Hope entertains a large crowd of American service men at the airstrip in Munda, New Georgia, on Oct. 31, 1944 during World War II. (AP Photo/U.S. Signal Corps) We always knew he ...

John Wayne Airport said it would officially open a site of the Bob Hope USO today in the Thomas F. Riley Terminal B arrivals area. It’s been open since Monday, Nov. 3, said Bob Hope USO Executive ...

A young entertainer stepped onto a stage on May 6, 1941, at March Field in California and made history. Bob Hope performed his very first show for the United Service Organizations (USO), beginning a ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the bill creating the United Service Organization on Feb. 4, 1941, 10 months before the Pearl Harbor attack brought the U.S. into World War II. The idea ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christmas often arrived a little late to the family of comedian Bob Hope. “We’d get to open one or two things on Christmas Day,” ...

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During Christmas of 1971, I was stationed in Da Nang, Vietnam. Each year, the USO would entertain troops with Christmas shows all over the world — wherever soldiers were stationed. The biggest show ...