A paratrooper officer reflected upon his Vietnam service and the time he spent with Bob Hope and other celebrities there to entertain the troops serving there. “I traveled the Bob Hope Show in 1966,” ...

Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, Dec. 21, 1966: Bob Hope stands solo on stage as he delights thousands of U.S. service members with his jokes a few days before Christmas. Hope’s legendary variety-style holiday ...

Pleiku, South Vietnam, Dec. 20, 1966: An unidentified Army nurse at Bob Hope’s 1966 Christmas Show. Some 11,000 women served in Vietnam, with 90% of them working as volunteer nurses. The nature of ...

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 ...