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Show Highlights of USO Five-Year Record At the height of activities 790 ols06 eV?i,y SUtes, by bn; tertamers. en June 1943, was the numerical Peak of volunteers J , Z of them workiBS that mon They worked a total f' .ion hours , - American public ha, J ' million dollars to servic rmlhon men and JJJJ M armed, forces. Cn A brief summary of USO's accomplishments ac-complishments during its first five years of service to men and women in uniform all over the world include in-clude the following highlights: At peak, USO was serving one million men a day. During the five years (February (Febru-ary 4, 1941 to February 4, 1945) total of 1,100,000,000 served. At peak, there were 30,035 USO operations. Peak expenditures were $5,-800,000 $5,-800,000 a month. I'eak overseas units totalled 178. Overseas club attendance (1942 to 1945) was 104.819,151. During the half-decade, mobile mo-bile services of all sorts totalled 50 million. Nineteen and one-half million Individual services performed by 131 USO-Travelers Aid units. |