“ THE BIG PICTURE -- USO WHEREVER THEY GO! ” STARS IN WWII, KOREA, VIETNAM WAR XD39144

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1960s color episode (#467) of the television series, “The Big Picture” uses footage shot by the United States Army Signal Corps to explain the mission of the United Service Organizations, or USO, from World War II through the Vietnam War (TRT 28:44). Animated opening titles: “The United States Army Presents The Big Picture, Produced for the Office of the Chief of Information by the Army Pictorial Center” (0:08). Bob Hope holds a golf club during an open-air USO show in Vietnam (0:40). Caroll Baker joins in the performance. A crowd of applauding enlisted men (1:12). Title card: “USO Wherever They Go!” (1:44). A world map dotted with locations of active USO duty, Europe to Vietnam (1:59). A military parade. A neon “USO” sign. Caroll Baker dances in a black leotard while men in uniform do the monkey around her. Baker sings while Bob Hope looks on, unsmiling (2:36