Thanks for the Memory
Dear Bob…Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II, Martha Bolton and Linda Hope. University Press of Mississippi. Hardcover ISBN
: 9781496832658, 328 pages, 278 black and white illustrations, March 2021
Dear Bob…offers a collection of letters sent to Bob as well has many pictures. Hope saved the letters he received from servicemen and women and kept them in black and white speckled boxes with orange spines. Also included in these boxes were carbon copies of his responses to the letters. This book gives great insight into the caring person Bob Hope was. “Thanks for the Memory”….Carol
Thanks for the Memory
Dear Bob…Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II, Martha Bolton and Linda Hope. University Press of Mississippi. Hardcover ISBN
: 9781496832658, 328 pages, 278 black and white illustrations, March 2021
Dear Bob…offers a collection of letters sent to Bob as well has many pictures. Hope saved the letters he received from servicemen and women and kept them in black and white speckled boxes with orange spines. Also included in these boxes were carbon copies of his responses to the letters. This book gives great insight into the caring person Bob Hope was. “Thanks for the Memory”….Carol
Bob Hope performs for American soldiers during World War II. (Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation)
No entertainer is more synonymous with support for U.S. troops than actor and stage performer Bob Hope. For nearly 50 years, his work with the United Service Organizations took him to the front lines of nearly every American conflict, from World War II to Desert Storm.
“Stealth bomber, that’s a big deal,” he said at a 1990 USO show in Bahrain. “Flies in undetected, bombs and then flies away. Hell, I’ve been doing that all my life.”
They called him the “one-man morale machine,” but a new book details the personal correspondence between the legendary comedian and some of the thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who wrote to him over the years.
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The late Bob Hope had a lifelong commitment to our servicemen and women. No one entertained our troops like he did.
Hope s daughter, Linda, and his first female staff writer, Martha Bolton, are helping to share personal stories with letters from long ago in the new book Dear Bob: Bob Hope s Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II.
During World War II, Hope was often in dangerous territory, bringing laughter to the brave troops protecting our country. The servicemen wrote him all the time and his secretary carefully looked after those letters.
As a child, Hope s daughter Linda once asked his secretary: What s in those boxes?