Ode to Marlene Dietrich in Combat Boots

My father during World War II was a B-17 pilot stationed from 1942 to 1944 in the UK. A great story he told me,
when he took leave to London to chase some British gal he had been seeing. While he was gone Bob Hope, Bing
Crosby, Rosemary Clooney and that whole gang did a show for the troops at his base. He was sorely bummed, though
later he got to see Marlene Dietrich perform and that he says made up for everything, including the war.
He also saw one of his favorites, Burl Ives sing and play guitar.