Bob Hope’s USO shows always had one of Hollywood’s current sex goddesses. In 1957, Jayne Mansfield (1933–1967), shown here in two playful photographs, prompted Hope to quip “I reminded the boys that Jayne was wearing a special dress for the occasion, made of two hundred yards of barbed wire.” Of that year’s show in Korea, Hope wrote, “when you see these combat troops squatting in the snow, hungry for any break in their drab routine, you feel like you’re in the right racket.”