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Clarise Soper
Clarise Soper, certified by the Board for Certification of Genealogists® and a US Army veteran, works with the Depart...
Jason Dawsey, PhD, is ASU WWII Studies Consultant in the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy.
Chris Branch is a former copywriter for Marketing and Communications at The National WWII Museum.
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This Paramount picture musical film—which features an all-star cast including Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Veronica Lake, and Fred MacMurray—was made during World War II as a morale booster, with the specific intent of entertaining the troops overseas and civilians back home and to encourage fundraising, as well as to show the studios' patriotism.