Honoring Bob Hope’s lifelong dedication to troops and veterans, the Museum visits hospitalized heroes.

Read excerpts from some of the winning essays, which contemplate what the duty of art and artists should be during times of war and conflict.    

See this war comedy directed by David Butler and starring Bob Hope as Don, Dorothy Lamour as Tony, Clarence Kolb as Tony’s father, Colonel Peter Fairbanks, and Eddie Bracken and Lynne Overman as Don’s cronies.

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.

Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour star in another of their Road to. . . series, directed by Victor Schertzinger.

Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour star in another Road to. . . picture, directed by Hal Walker, which features two turn-of-the-century vaudeville performers, Duke and Chester, who go to Alaska to make their fortune.

Gather your crew and compete for the title of Museum trivia champ!

Make and take your own crystal radio and produce a WWII-era radio comedy using scripts, sound-effects, and music. 

Join us at The National WWII Museum for a workshop led by Eli Ivory of Ivory Comics, who will instruct participants on the basics of drawing, cartooning, and caricature art.

Join us at the Museum for a full day celebrating Bob Hope’s career in radio, with a humor-writing workshop, a radio-themed STEM workshop for girls, and a “live” radio-broadcast re-creation!

Join Kimberly Guise, curator of the special exhibit So Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Hope, and Hope biographer Richard Zoglin for a discussion about the entertainer’s life and work.

This American comedy, directed by Sidney Lanfield, stars Bob Hope as Larry and Madeleine Carroll as Karen.