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Last Friday we focused on Bing Crosby whose birthday was May 3 and today, it’s time to celebrate his pal, Bob Hope also born in 1903 on the 29th. What drew these two guys together is unknown, but they had a great friendship and successful partnership. Plus, they both used their talents to support the troops. Bob’s first movie was The Broadcast of 1938, where he sang his signature song, Thanks for the Memories. Eventually he was in seventy-five movies and the most popular were the Road movies with his buddy Bing. During his lengthy one-hundred-year life span, he entertained […]

Samuel F.B. Morse formally opens the first telegraph line between Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC in 1844. “What hath God wrought” was the first official message sent from the Capitol Building to Baltimore. Prior to inventing the telegraph, Morse was an accomplished portrait painter and artist. However, he was motivated to improve long distance communications after his wife’s death. Sadly, by the time he got the news of her illness and returned to their home, she had already died and been buried.

Bing Crosby, another popular entertainer during the war was born on May 3, in 1903 in Tacoma, Washington. Instead of completing his law studies, he became a successful singer and actor instead. In fact, he was the best-selling recording artist of the 20th century with over one billion sales of records, tapes, CDs and digital downloads around the world. As his career was starting, the microphone was developed which made it possible for him to perfect his easy-going, crooner singing style. He was so popular with the troops that Yank Magazine recognized him as the person who had done the […]

Operation Straight Line begins with the Allies landing in Dutch New Guinea. Also known as the Battle of Wakde, it was part of the strategy along the east coast of New Guinea to clear the way for McArthur to return to the Philippines. Won after a three-day battle, the Americans lost forty men and one hundred seven were wounded while the Japanese lost seven hundred fifty-nine men and four were captured.