…USO served many thousands of servicemen and servicewomen. York USO newsletters, from York County Heritage Trust files, provide insight into local USO activity, including the USO facility at Crispus Attucks…
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…Buses provided for USO Dances. 5,000 Hostesses Entertained Service Men at Dances. 8 USO Swimming Parties for Service Men. 12 Service Men’s Day Rooms Furnished by YORK USO at New…
York USO canteen I’m still getting responses to my recent York Sunday News column and related blog posts on the York World War II USO facilities and activities. Local artist…
…were misidentified in the original newspaper article.) Click the links below for previous USO posts: York County’s extensive World War II USO operations. The Salvation Army’s downtown York USO canteen….
Here is another follow up to my previous York Sunday News column and posts on York County USO activity during World War II. You can find the others at www.yorkblog.com…
…Organizations) activities during September 1943. (Click here for fellow blogger Jim McClure’s posts on the background of the York USO.) The York USO’s Pennsylvania Dutch Canteen, located at 153 N….
…USO activities I mentioned that the Salvation Army was one of the USO’s founders, nationally and locally. George Lenkner of the York Salvation Army informed me that: “Here in York,…
…County World War II USO, I mentioned that my former neighbor, Muriel Smith, who was one of the local USO hostesses, related that she and a friend happened to be…
…USO newsletter commends “Peg” Lewis and her committee for their “$1,000 job,” murals done for no charge on the USO Pennsylvania Dutch canteen walls. (I understand some of that décor…
…production that became a national model, and about the strong local USO programs York countians provided. I knew very little, however, about the York County Branch of Bundles for Britain….