WOMEN SERVING THE MILITARY
| Professional entertainers volunteered their time. Hollywood stars and lesser known performers socialized with troops and performed at U.S. military bases and then took their shows on the road to wherever Americans were fighting. |
 Packing boxes for light stations and outposts, USO Club, Des Moines, Iowa Credit: Women’s Memorial Foundation |
Booklet from the USO Kalama Club for Servicewomen, Hawaii |
 Canteen, USO Club, Oahu, Hawaii Credit: Women’s Memorial Foundation |
USO entertainers Marlene Dietrich and Lynn
Mayberry
dine with members of the 101st
Airborne Division somewhere in Europe  Credit: Women’s Memorial Foundation |
| USO established Canteens overseas. Like the Red Cross, USO volunteers assembled packages of comfort items that were distributed to the troops. |
 USO Club, maintained by The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America, Honolulu, Hawaii Credit: Women’s Memorial Foundation |
“U.S.O. Center for Negro WAACs and Soldiers,” newspaper and date unknown  Credit: Women’s Memorial Foundation Click on image to see larger version |
