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Author Jacobson, Jack, 1921-2009.

Title Introducing-- the Sky Blazers : the adventures of a special band of troops who entertained the Allied forces during World War II / Jack Jacobson
Edition 1st ed
Published Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents The French café -- Pearl Harbor -- Dayton -- Doris -- The Ninth Air Force -- Kuntzy in New York -- Let's put on a show! -- Egypt -- The Sky Blazers -- King of Egypt -- The Zulus and the Yacht Club Boys -- Road to El Alamein -- Under new management -- Duke and England -- Touring France in the wake of D-Day -- Paris -- Trouble with the enemy -- Going home -- New York, Dayton, and New York again
Summary Soldiers who formed a comedy and musical troupe dodge bullets during World War II
Notes English
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Subject Jacobson, Jack, 1921-2009.
SUBJECT Jacobson, Jack, 1921-2009
Jacobson, Jack. swd
Subject Soldiers -- Recreation -- United States -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography
Entertainers -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Entertainers
Soldiers
Soldiers -- Recreation
United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Personal narratives
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Personal narratives
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Récits personnels.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781597976282
1597976288