dalbert Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 Arthur's post made me think of some of my Dad's Vietnam pictures of USO shows with Bob Hope and Raquel Welch at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam. I think Hope made 2 visits there in '67 and '68, as I recall my father saying, and from some of the dates on the slides. I was 1-2 years old at the time, and my Dad was always a shutterbug, especially during the war. Being a doctor, he developed a lot of the black and white images in x-ray developing solutions, and the fixative was not the greatest for preservation purposes, but you'll get the idea. The color slides are much better. Dad died on active duty 18 years ago, and I don't often get to share any of the hundreds of Vietnam pictures he took. He was a Captain at the time, and served in the Medical Corps at the 6th Convalescent Center on the beach at Cam Ranh Bay. Very good duty, from what I can see, and from what he told me. Anyway, this post is kind of "off track" now, but I couldn't help but post some pictures that might add a few thousand words to the conversation... http://www.sturmgewehr.com/dalbert/Misc/Bob_Hope-2_Mar68.jpg Cue cards... http://www.sturmgewehr.com/dalbert/Misc/Bob_Hope-6_122967.jpg http://www.sturmgewehr.com/dalbert/Misc/Bob_Hope-3.jpg Looks like quite a number of troops "endured" the show... http://www.sturmgewehr.com/dalbert/Misc/Bob_Hope_Crowd-3.jpg http://www.sturmgewehr.com/dalbert/Misc/Bob_Hope-2.jpg http://www.sturmgewehr.com/dalbert/Misc/Raquel_Welch.jpg http://www.sturmgewehr.com/dalbert/Misc/Unknown_Celebrity.jpg Here's a picture of Dad with his local war souvenir... http://www.sturmgewehr.com/dalbert/Misc/Dad_AK-47-2.jpg David Albert dalbert@sturmgewehr.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colt21a Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 david those are nice pic's.and your dad i'm sure served with honor.semper-fi ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z3BigDaddy Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 QUOTE (Arthur Fliegenheimer @ Feb 3 2006, 09:02 PM) Even though Wayne's "Green Berets" was the only Hollywood movie about Vietnam during the war, it is so embarrassingly constructed as if Wayne thought time stood still in 1942. Don't know about making time stand still but he did make the sun set in the East.... http://www.machinegunbooks.com/forums/invboard1_1_2/upload/html/emoticons/woot.gif Some strong stuff David..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
full auto 45 Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 Very nice pix Dave. Those are ones to be proud of. And as far as Bob Hope, he was a very funny person. If you didn't laugh at Hope, you probable didn't like the 3 Stooges or Abbot and Costello or the Marx brothers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 Dave-- I absolutely enjoyed those pix!! thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Fliegenheimer Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 QUOTE (full auto 45 @ Feb 4 2006, 08:03 AM) Very nice pix Dave. Those are ones to be proud of. And as far as Bob Hope, he was a very funny person. If you didn't laugh at Hope, you probable didn't like the 3 Stooges or Abbot and Costello or the Marx brothers. The Marx Brothers films were classics and much funnier than Hope and Crosby Road pictures. Groucho was much more quick witted than Hope as demonstrated on "You Bet Your Life." The Stooges and Abbot & Costello were masters of slapstick, like Harold Loyd and Buster Keaton in the silent film era. W.C. Fields had it all over on Hope. The problem with Hope is that he didn't know when to leave the stage. Hope lacked the instinct his contemporaries had to know when to pack it in. Instead of being remembered for Vaudeville, radio, a 50's TV show, and his Crosby films, he pressed on with the same material that had lost its resonance a generation before the 1960's. Joe E. Brown appeared in scores more front line areas to entertain the troops in WWII, yet Hope's PR machine made sure he got all the coverage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Mills Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 I found this link on the Combat! website. It's a list of actors who served in WW2. http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/milita...rs_in_wwii.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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