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Post #512905 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Feb 23, 2010 5:46 PM

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On 2010-02-23 15:38, Mr. Pupu Pants wrote:

Here's an extremely cool archive of Pacific WW2 photos (very hi res):

http://www3.uakron.edu/majuro/Tekulve/

Indeed a great find!
The above photo shows ( L to R) Frances Langford dancing with a G.I., Jerry Colona, Tony Romano, and Bob Hope and is from that USO Unit No 130 Tour that I posted the map from earlier, and about which I posted some material from Comedian/Cartoonist Jerry Colona's book:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=30132&forum=17&vpost=413413

Here is a great shot of Jerry (on the far right) with some brass (General?):

And the decor in this tent shows that it wasn't exactly "primitive art" that was foremost on the guys' minds: