This is the concluding part of “This is the Army”–It’s also highly worth spending the time to read it.
After touring the English provinces, the company went to North Africa for two weeks and then sailed for Italy. This Is the Army was presented at the San Carlo Opera House in Naples in early April 1944. The group arrived in Rome by truck only six days after the Eternal City fell to the Allies. The musical was presented twice a day at the Royal Opera House in June.
Egypt was the next stop in early August, with This Is the Army being performed at the Cairo Opera House until the end of the month. September and October were spent in Iran. The company then traveled to the vast Pacific Theater, with New Guinea the first stop at the end of December 1944.
The company eventually landed at Guam in early August 1945, days before the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. A number of island-hopping stops followed, from…
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I hope your readers enjoy the post. Some people have expressed the wish to see the movie, so I included a link to it on Youtube in this post.
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Cool, GP.
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Interesting pieces, Pat. Thanks for sharing these!
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Glad you liked them. I thought they were fascinating–especially the tidbit about the first time that whites and African American soldiers worked together.
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