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Show fix x THOSE WHO SERVED ... The USO continues to aid wounded veterans. vet-erans. Above Is Junior Hostess Lucille Massa playing checkers with wounded vet at a Battle Creek, Mich.,' club outside Percy Jones army, general hospital. Highlights of USO Fivo-Yoar Record I 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 tht following highlights: At peak, t"SO was serving one million men a day. During Ute five years (February (Febru-ary 4. 1!M1 to February 4, 1945) total of 1.100.000.000 srrvrd. At peak, there were 30,035 t'0 operations. Peak expenditures were 15, 00,000 a month. Teak overseas units totalled 178. Overseas rlub attendance (191? to 1945) was 104.819.151. During the half-decade, mobile mo-bile services of all aorta totalled M million. Nineteen and one-half million Individual errvlrrs performed by 131 I'SO-Travrlcrs Aid units. At the height of activities 700 USO shows were given dally everteaa and la the United States, by mere than 4,900 entertainers. en-tertainers. June, IMS, was the numerical peak ef volunteers 739,000 f them working that month. They worked a total of 165 million hours In the five years. American publlo has given 100 million dollars lo service 14 million men and women In armed forces. |