Patty Thomas
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"Once you've entertained these boys and you've made them happy, you know that you have to keep going until you just can't do it anymore." - Patty Thomas[1]
Patty Thomas was an American dancer,
Bob Hope Show
After doing shows with
On 14 August 1944, Hope, Thomas, and his tour group had one scary detour on the tour the team was flying in a
After the South Pacific tour, Hope, Thomas and the tour did a European show. The European show did 13 shows in Germany: Bremen, Berlin, Bad Kissingen, Schweinfurt, Heidelberg, Furstenfeldbruck, Fritzlar, Kassel, Munich, Nuremberg and Mannheim. The tour was in
Thomas joined Hope on The Colgate Comedy Hour: The Bob Hope Christmas Show in 1955. At the age of 16, she started working with dancing with Al Ross, her teacher,
Legacy
Who Threw That Coconut! is book by Jerry Colonna about the 1944 tour with Hope, Thomas and tours.[15] Entertaining the Troops (1988) is documentary on the 1944 USO tour. Entertaining the Troops is noted as it has a reunion of Bob Hope's tour troupe, including Frances Langford, Patty Thomas and Tony Romano.[citation needed] Patty is also remembered in the 1995 TV Movie, Bob Hope: Memories of World War II. Patty Thomas's Pith helmet from 1944 is on display at The National WWII Museum, it was given to her by troops of Group Pacific 7, a naval supply base in the Naval Base Marshall Islands.[16] The Library of Congress has a page on Patty Thomas and her service to the United States Armed Forces over the years.[17]
Gallery
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Patty Thomas in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning plane in Europe during May 1945 on Bob Hope USO tour.
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Bob Hope and Patty Thomas in Germany in 1945 on USO tour, in front of a transport plane, Thomas had an infected wisdom tooth in this photo. Thomas went to a Paris hospital for a few days and then rejoined the tour.
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US Navy Seabee 117th Naval Construction Battalion clipart from 1944, right center is Patty Thomas
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Patty Thomas's Pith helmet from 1944 at The National WWII Museum. I was given to her by troops of Group Pacific 7, a naval supply base in the Naval Base Marshall Islands.
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Hope, Thomas and tour Consolidated PBY Catalinans emergency landing in Australia in 1944. US Navy pilot James Ferguson standing beside Jerry Colonna with moustache and Bob Hope in the background on the Camden Haven River in Laurieton, New South Wales.
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A Consolidated PBY Catalina seaplane and its crew, the plane is like the one Hope and Thomas used in the 1944 tour.
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Hal Block (far left), Bob Hope, Barney Dean, General George S. Patton, Frances Langford and Tony Romano, Thomas was on this tour, but is out of the frame for this photo. Thomas and Langford became good friends, after touring and bunking together on the tours.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Patty Thomas: "What You are Fighting For"". The National WWII Museum | New Orleans.
- ^ Patty Thomasocregister.com
- ^ Patty Thomasloc.gov
- ^ Winnipeg Free Press Newspaper Archives, Feb 21, 1944, p. 5
- ^ Bob Hope Tour 1944eaglehorse.org
- ^ Patty Thomas gallery loc.gov
- ^ Frances Langfordozatwar.com
- ^ Bob Hope's unexpected landing in Laurietonozatwar.com
- ^ Bob Hope's unexpected landing in Laurieton'ABC News
- ^ Bob Hope: A Life In Comedy - Page 172, by Faith William Robert
- ^ "Dear Bob": Bob Hope's correspondence with GIs at war, March 7, 2021CBS News
- ^ Dolores Hope celebrates her 100th birthday with friends and family, By Bob Pool, May 28, 2009 LA Times
- ^ Royal Albert Hallroyalalberthall.com
- ^ 117th Naval Construction Battalion (1943-1945)US Navy
- ^ Who Threw That Coconut!imusic.co
- ^ So Ready for Laughter: Bob Hope and World War II, September 5, 2021nyhsdev.org, The New-York Historical Society
- ^ "Patty Thomas Collection". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.