March 15, 2019 - October 20, 2019The Joe W. and Dorothy D. Brown Foundation Special Exhibit Gallery A component of The National WWII Mus...

When World War II began, entertainer Bob Hope’s career as a major movie star in film and radio was just beginning to take off, having worked his way from jobs as a newsboy, a butcher’s assistant, a shoe salesman, and an amateur boxer to scrape by in the early 1920s.

When the greatest threat to the civilized world beckoned in World War II, Louisiana was ready.