https://archive.org/details/NPC-5055
Listed at the National Archives as "Landing Of Bob Hope At Mullinex [SIC] Field And Pictures Of Hope Show, 07/29/1944." National Archives description: "1) MS PBY-5A lands, taxis. 2) MS Bob Hope & party exit plane; greeted by officers & men. 3) MS Hope party enters jeeps. 4) MS PBY-5A warms up. 5) GV-Pan Stage & spectators for Hope show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Ti16FI_gI
Shot List: 1) MS PBY-5A lands, taxis.2) MS Bob Hope & party exit plane; greeted by officers & men.3) MS Hope party enters jeeps.4) MS PBY-5A warms up.5) GV-P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PslYqOdKeeU
Freely downloadable at the Internet Archive, where I first uploaded it. Listed at the National Archives as "Landing Of Bob Hope At Mullinex [SIC] Field And P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2NLw6oyBMs
Subscribe for daily upload of history content : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD92fa2bVaNV8kuL_5CyKXAListed as Landing Of Bob Hope At Mullinex [SIC] Field

https://www.facebook.com/SouthPacificWWllMuseum/posts/in-july-and-august-1944-bob-hope-and-members-of-the-uso-performed-79-shows-throu/3783619978344595/
December 1, 2020 ·. In July and August 1944, Bob Hope and members of the USO, performed 79 shows throughout the South and South West Pacific. On August 10 and 11 they were on Espiritu Santo performing to soldiers, sailors and Marines as well as visiting hundreds of personnel in the five hospitals on the island.

https://www.uso.org/bob-hope
Bob Hope was many things, but to the USO and to the service members of the United States, he was the " one-man-morale machine .". Bob Hope dedicated much of his nearly 80-year career to entertaining American troops, both at home and abroad. Undeterred by enemy fire or rough seas, Hope went straight to the front lines, delivering laughter

https://www.facebook.com/SouthPacificWWllMuseum/posts/826042236228911/
Not the greatest quality but we had to share it. This is a film from the US Archives showing Bob Hope and his fellow performers arriving at Mullinix

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/hope-for-america/entertaining-the-troops.html
Bob Hope (1903-2003) and his USO troupe visiting a hospital ward in the South Pacific (from left) Tony Romano (1915-2005), Jerry Colonna (1904-1986), Bob Hope, Patty Thomas (b. 1922), and Frances Langford (1913-2005), 1944. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (116

https://www.fs2000.org/2018/05/06/pby-5a-catalina-and-bob-hope-at-mullinix-field-kiribati-silent/
In April 1944, the land-based units moved forward to Kwajalein Airfield in the Marshall Islands, and shortly thereafter, Mullinix was reduced to an emergency airfield. By the end of the war, the Americans abandoned the facilities and the airfield was turned into a civilian airport. LANDING OF BOB HOPE AT MULLINEX FIELD & PICTURES OF HOPE SHOW

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/bobhope/uso.html
Bob Hope's first radio show for the U.S. Armed Forces was broadcast from March Field in Riverside, California. During World War II Hope was sufficiently moved by the sacrifices the U.S. troops made on behalf of the U.S. public that he and his radio troupe traveled nearly every week to perform The Pepsodent Show at a military training site.

http://www.americainwwii.com/articles/bob-hope-and-the-road-to-gi-joe/
Quirk wrote that Hope was irked on Sunday morning, December 7, because This Week magazine, a supplement to the Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times, had reported his gross income for 1940 ($464,161.78). But the startling news coming over the radio from Hawaii quickly made him forget his irritation.

https://peleliuwater.blogspot.com/2014/08/bob-hope-on-performing-for-first-marine.html
Bob Hope on performing for the First Marine Division on Pavuvu. Crowd of Marines for Bob Hope's show on Pavuvu. Bob Hope performed for the First Marine Division on Banika and Pavuvu in mid to late August of 1944. In an interview later in life, he shared how much that show impacted him.

https://www.facebook.com/USMCMuseum/videos/battle-of-tarawa-lvt-landings/306807396589440/
"The landing at Tarawa would have failed without amphibian tractors...they would spearhead all future landings." - Lieutenant General Holland M. "Howlin' Mad" Smith. The three-day battle for Tarawa in November 1943 was the first major trial by fire for the new Marine doctrine of forcible amphibious assault from the sea. Find out more about the

https://www.ww2history.org/war-in-the-pacific/battle-for-peleliu-island-wwii-and-the-stories-of-three-survivors/
Overhead, naval gunfire pummeled the island and aircraft bombed and strafed. The landing was a complex maneuver requiring precise timing and coordination." After days of US heavy naval and aerial bombardment of Peleliu the 1st Marine Division began landing on the beaches of the island at 0830 (military time) on September 15, 1944.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tarawa
The Battle of Tarawa was fought on 20-23 November 1943 between the United States and Japan at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts. Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, and Americans died in the fight, mostly on and around the small island of Betio, in the extreme southwest of Tarawa Atoll.

https://archive.org/details/BobHopeBobHopShowDDay
Bob Hop Show DDay Audio With External Links Item Preview ... Patriotic live broadcast of the Bob Hope Show on D-Day June 6, 1944 Addeddate 2006-08-25 19:52:53 Audio_type Mixed(talk and music) Identifier BobHopeBobHopShowDDay Is_clip false Mature_content false

https://www.reddit.com/r/wwiipics/comments/3f4ccx/us_marines_sailors_and_soldiers_cover_a_hillside/
182K subscribers in the wwiipics community. A place to share and discuss World War II photographs.

https://mapcarta.com/27389252
1°21′59″N 173°07′17″E / 1.36639°N 173.12139°ETe Umanibong or the Kiribati Cultural Museum, or Kiribati Museum and Cultural Centre, is a museum in Bikenibeu on the atoll of Tarawa in Kiribati. Kiribati National Museum and Cultural Centre is situated 4 km southwest of US Mullinix Airfield WW2. Ukraine is facing shortages in its

https://www.midway-island.com/events-2/uso-shows/
October 1, 1968 - USO shows on Midway Island - there were at least two shows along with separate stopovers with Bob Hope, Ann Margaret and his crew. December 14, 1968 - The plane carrying Bob Hope's Christmas show was in-route to Vietnam or returning back from I'm not quite sure, stopped for a few hours on Midway Island. Capt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkins_Field_(Tarawa)
Hawkins Field (Tarawa) /  1.3562472°N 172.9301083°E  / 1.3562472; 172.9301083. Hawkins Field is a former World War II airfield on Betio, Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands of the Central Pacific . The airfield was named in honor of USMC 1st Lt. William Dean Hawkins who was killed in the battle to recapture Tarawa, and earned the Medal of Honor .

https://www.facebook.com/ussmidwaymuseum/posts/29-years-ago-the-bob-hope-around-the-world-in-eight-days-show-was-performed-aboa/10154107720352765/
29 years ago: The Bob Hope Around The World In Eight Days show was performed aboard MIDWAY on Christmas Eve! The show featured Connie Stevens, her two daughters, Tricia & Joely Fisher, Barbara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ0W1rsP7go
Shot List: 1) MS Bob Hope & actresses, exit plane.2) MS SCU Bob Hope, Vera Vague, Jerry Colonna, Frances Langford at mike-SV.3) GV-Pan Interior, audience, pa

https://newenglandaviationhistory.com/pawtuckaway-state-park-november-29-1944/
On November 29, 1944, a B-24 Liberator, (#44-49669) took off from Grenier Field in Manchester, New Hampshire, en-route overseas. When the plane was about 16 miles north-east of Manchester it suffered a structural failure in the rear rudder system causing the pilot to loose control. The B-24 crashed and burned at the base of Middle Mountain in