celebrities/VIPs

Celebrities (including Ann Sheridan in this shot) perform on an outdoor stage set up at the "Last Resort" at Yangkai, Yunnan province, during WWII. Notice both Americans and Chinese in the audience for this USO event.

Celebrities (including Ann Sheridan in this shot) perform on an outdoor stage set up at the "Last Resort" at Yangkai, Yunnan province, during WWII. Notice both Americans and Chinese in the audience for this USO event.

Celebrities (including Ann Sheridan hamming it up with Ben Blue, and Ruth Dennis playing an instrument in this shot) perform on an outdoor stage set up at the "Last Resort" at Yangkai, Yunnan province, during WWII. Notice both Americans and Chinese in the audience for this USO event.

Celebrities (including Ann Sheridan, Ben Blue, and and Ruth Dennis playing an instrument in this shot) perform on an outdoor stage set up at the "Last Resort" at Yangkai, Yunnan province, during WWII. Notice both Americans and Chinese in the audience for this USO event.

VIPs from both the US and China talk things over during WWII at a base somewhere in China. Senator Henry Wallace gestures over the map, next to Chiang Kai-shek.

US and Chinese VIPs interact in southwest China during WWII-- Senator Henry Wallace planting a tree on the left, and and looking at a map on the right.

Pat O'Brien and Jinx Falkenburg look over a B-25 of the Chinese-American Composite Wing (CACW) at Liuzhou (Liuchow), China, during a tour of the China-Burma-India Theater (CBI) of Operations with a camp show. In the background coolies pull up carts loaded with gasoline drums. 11-2-1944 Signal Corps Photo #CHI-44-50435 (Dillard)

An American celebrity, Mary Landa, dancing in the CBI, at Yangkai. Performance at "Last Resort" building on base.

Mary Landa, an American celebrity, in the CBI.

A very lucky Kenneth R. Williams with celebrities, including Jinx Falkenburg (left), and Betty Yeaton (right).