One of those stories that is too good to ignore. Entertainers who visited the solders at the front lines with nothing but a jeep and their wits. Robert O'Connor's novel Jeep Show: A Trouper at the Battle of the Bulge during the final offensives of the Second World War, the season when German made its last deparate attempt to push the Allies back into the sea.
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Small shows. A single vehicle and a couple of entertainers. But they were the ones who engaged the front line troops. They went to the battle, to the, places where the USO didn’t go. They saw the war as it was and helped the soldiers to their do their job. They also found themselves in adventures of their own. .
An excerpt from Chapter 15 of Robert O’Connor’s novel “Jeep Show: A Trouper at the Battle of the Bulge.”
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