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Thanks for the Memory Dear Bob…Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II, Martha Bolton and Linda Hope. University Press of Mississippi. Hardcover ISBN : 9781496832658, 328 pages, 278 black and white illustrations, March 2021 Dear Bob…offers a collection of letters sent to Bob as well has many pictures. Hope saved the letters he received from servicemen and women and kept them in black and white speckled boxes with orange spines. Also included in these boxes were carbon copies of his responses to the letters. This book gives great insight into the caring person Bo...

CBS News "Dear Bob": Bob Hope's correspondence with GIs at war In the 1940s, Bob Hope was already one of America's brightest stars. But to Linda Hope, he was just "Dad." So, what was it like to have Bob Hope as a dad? "Well, pretty spectacular, I have to say," she said. "It was never dull! But he was always on the go. I mean, that's what I remember most of all." Indeed he was. At the time, Hope had a hit "Road" movie series with his old pal Bing Crosby, a top-rated radio program, and a packed personal appearance schedule.