Martha O'Driscoll and four other entertainers perform on stage, Alaska, November 1943

Gift in Memory of Martha O'Driscoll
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Photograph. Harry Mendoza, Ruth Carroll, Errol Flynn, Jim Dodd and Martha O'Driscoll performing on stage. Personal caption on photo front: "Final at Dutch Harbor" and on reverse reads: "11-12-43. Dear Martha, Here is the pictures you ask for, they are not verrie [sic] good, if there hade been some made there that knew lots about pictures, they would have been fine, it isn't the subject. Martha i would like for you to give Ruth one of thes [sic], she wanted one, and i would rillie like for you to send me one of your self, so i can put it on the wall of my hut. The best of luck to a beautiful little star, P.F.C. James K. Huckaby. A.S.N. 37062434, Headquarters Battery , 206 C.A. (A.A.) % Postmaster A.P.O. 939. Seattle, Washington." Dutch Harbor, Alaska. 12 November 1943

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Donor: 
Mrs. Linda A. Potter
Accession Number: 
2013.150.154
Date: 
11/12/1943
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Unit: 
206th Coast Artillery Regiment
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Topical Subjects: 
Entertainers--Alaska
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Martha O'Driscoll was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on March 4, 1922. She was an American film actress from 1937 until 1947. She toured with Errol Flynn and other entertainers in the USO in the early 1940s, performing for the troops in the Aleutians in 1943 and later in the South Pacific. She married her first husband, Richard Adams, in 1943. They were divorced in 1947, and later that year she married Arthur Appleton. O'Driscoll was under contract to Universal Studios during World War II. Collection includes over 200 photographs related to O'Driscoll's time overseas; four certificates awarded to her for her service, and many newspaper clippings detailing her life in the public eye.
Geography: 
Alaska
Latitude: 
65.000
Longitude: 
-153.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Entertainers--Alaska