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Command Command Performance, USA, the greatest entertainers in America

as requested by you, the men and women in the United States Armed Forces throughout the world.

Command Performance presented this week and every week till you're back from over there.

Thank you. this week and every week till you're back from over there. Well, gang, this is Ken Carpenter on wrapping the biggest Christmas package of the day.

Command Performance, your present from Armed Forces Radio Service, Los Angeles, USA.

This year, we wanted to make this a very realistic Christmas.

Of course, we couldn't bring you any snow,

we couldn't bring you a hunk of the North Pole or Santa Claus's Igloo,

but we are bringing you a man who has an icicle for a nose,

and here he is Bob Hope.

Thank you. Bob Hope. Howdy-do, ladies and gentlemen, this is Bob Christmas Command Hope,

telling all you occupation troops that are wearing iron lids,

how are you going to get enough points to come back

when it's Crosby who keeps having kids?

Of course, even in the occupation troops,

they're issuing passes to certain fellows for Christmas.

Issuing passes to certain fellas for Christmas.

That's an army expression, meaning

any, meeny, minie, there ain't no mole.

But back home, we're having our first peacetime Christmas

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