Bob Hope

1903 - 2003

 

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Bob Hope takes his first look at peace-time Burtonwood in 1948.

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Entertaining the troops on stage Bob with Delores Hope.

 

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Bob Hope and composer Irving Berlin "help" Jinx Falkenburgh out of a Berlin Airlift C-54.

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Bob and Delores Hope with Jinx Falkenburgh and Father Kean are met by Colonel Walter W Ott at the base of the steps of a Douglas C-118A military transport at Burtonwood, 29 December 1948.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

        
         
         

 

 

 

All photographs Col. Walter W Ott.  Reproduced from the book Royal Air Force Burtonwood - 50 Years in Photographs by Aldon P Ferguson.  Copyright Airfield Publications.