{"id":454,"date":"2011-08-28T15:11:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T19:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/universal\/?p=454"},"modified":"2011-08-28T15:53:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T19:53:13","slug":"york-world-war-ii-uso%e2%80%94part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/universal\/york-world-war-ii-uso%e2%80%94part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"York World War II USO\u2014Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/USOflier2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/USOflier2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"USOflier\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/universal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/USOflier2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/universal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/08\/USOflier2-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s more from <a href=\"\/universal\/2011\/08\/28\/york-u-s-o-served-members-of-our-armed-forces\/\">the 1943 York USO flier I mentioned in my last post<\/a>. The statistics of services the York USO had provided, just up to September 1943, are pretty impressive. See below:<\/p>\n<p>7,400 Service Men Guests at YORK USO Service Men\u2019s Club and Pennsylvania Dutch Canteen (Opened January 9, 1943).<br \/>\n15,000 Service Men Accommodated at York Railroad Station (Troops in Transit)\u2014Providing Sandwiches, Soft Drinks, Cookies, Cigarettes, Candy, Travel Information and Assistance.<br \/>\n2,710 USO Vouchers for Lodging<br \/>\n1,800 USO Vouchers for Meals.<br \/>\n526 Junior and Senior Hostesses.<br \/>\n550 Recordings made by Service Men at the Pennsylvania Dutch Canteen.<br \/>\n528 Service Men served breakfast at Pennsylvania Dutch Canteen.<br \/>\n45 Dances for Service Men at New Cumberland, Indiantown Gap, and York.<br \/>\n135 Buses provided for USO Dances.<br \/>\n5,000 Hostesses Entertained Service Men at Dances.<br \/>\n8 USO Swimming Parties for Service Men.<br \/>\n12 Service Men\u2019s Day Rooms Furnished by YORK USO at New Cumberland at a cost of $2,100.00.<br \/>\n$42,000 War Saving Stamps Sold by YORK USO at Victory House.<\/p>\n<p>The York USO also published a very interesting quarterly newsletter, some of which are in the USO file at the York County Heritage Trust Library\/Archives. The first one I picked up revealed the identity of the artist who painted the Pennsylvania Dutch murals that were depicted on the postcard in my last post.<\/p>\n<p>As I suspected, the artist was Margaret Sarah Lewis, who sent the post card to Henry J. Young. The newsletter says: \u201cSome connoisseur of art claimed the Pennsylvania Dutch decorations on our Canteen walls are a $1,000 job. Peg Lewis and her committee did them for the USO for 0.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stop by <a href=\"http:\/\/yorkheritage.org\/exhibit.asp\">York County Heritage Trust to see <em>Front Porch to Front Lines: York County Goes to War<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s more from the 1943 York USO flier I mentioned in my last post. The statistics of services the York USO had provided, just up to September 1943, are pretty impressive. See below: 7,400 Service Men Guests at YORK USO Service Men\u2019s Club and Pennsylvania Dutch Canteen (Opened January 9,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,249,151,245,363,39,7,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1940s","category-dancing","category-entertainment","category-recreation","category-sailors","category-soldiers","category-universal-york","category-york-county"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>York World War II USO\u2014Part Two - Universal York<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/universal\/york-world-war-ii-uso\u2014part-two\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"York World War II USO\u2014Part Two - Universal York\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here\u2019s more from the 1943 York USO flier I mentioned in my last post. 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