Highway to Heaven
1984
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Oct 19, 2022 · Together We Served examines how and why Bob Hope worked with the USO to deliver star-studded shows to troops for nearly 50 years.
Prompted by patriotism and vaudevillian wanderlust, Bob Hope toured the variety show for more than fifty years to entertain U.S. troops wherever they were stationed.
Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-born American comedian, centenarian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours.
Apr 19, 2024 · Bob Hope, British-born American entertainer and comic actor known for his rapid-fire delivery of jokes and one-liners and for his success in virtually all entertainment media. He was also known for his decades of overseas USO tours to entertain U.S. troops.
Bob Hope and his USO troupe arrived in Sicily three days after the Seventh Army, led by General George S. Patton (1885–1945), took the key town of Messina. Patton asked Hope to tell his radio audience “that I love my men.”
May 20, 2021 · The USO, for which Hope toured from World War II through the Gulf War, marks its 75th birthday on Feb. 4, 2016.
Apr 3, 2014 · Hope took a break from his USO efforts until the early 1980s. He resumed his comedic mission with a trip to Lebanon in 1983. In the early 1990s, Hope went to Saudi Arabia to cheer on the soldiers...
