#uso tour

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What If...? The Winter Soldier attends CAPTAIN AMERICA's USO TOUR (1945)

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You know he waited in line all day!😭🩵 (another textless version below👇🏼)

Extra Points to anyone who can guess what's going through Bucky's head....

(reblogs and shares super appreciated 🩵)

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Jack Benny and Carole Landis on a USO tour in 1944.

[elkleggs]

Had such a kink for poor boy with the USO girls for so fucking long, can’t blame the MCU for canonising it.

[hainethehero]

Steve Rogers make-up headcanon...

I have this idea in my head that when Steve started touring with the USO girls, he used to wear stage makeup. And after that, he got so used to it, that he just kept the routine.

So by the time Avengers 1 rolls around, Steve's amazed by all the new products available and totally remembers his skin care routine. He shops with Sam and gets moisturizers, serums and fruity lip balms. None of the cakey stuff they used on him in the thirties and forties. He even gets light coverage tinted moisturizers and lash curlers- because Adeline (one of the USO girls) showed him how to do it once- and he still finds it fun and relaxing to curl his long lashes.

(Bucky totally loves Steve in makeup too, esp when steve goes down on him🥵)

Anyway... Steve loves self-care and in the 21st century, he gets to indulge in it without being made to feel guilty or like he's different.

Like, look at this picture (this was after he got booed off the stage)🔝 and tell me it doesn't look like Steve's got on some Max Factor foundation, brows done with some rouge & curled, mascaraed lashes!?🤨

[positivexcellence]

Jared at the USO base in Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland 3/25/23 (x)

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Jared in Poland [ 📸 clif kosterman]

[arwenadreamer]

All the praise for Jared from people on the USO tour!

These are mostly people who aren't super fans. People who didn't spend hundreds (thousands) of dollars to meet him at a con, who don't have seen him in hours upon hours of con videos and outtakes and whatnot. People who didn't go into this meeting with the expectation to meet their idol, with all those positive emotions. People whose experience isn't tinged by the rosy colours of super fan glasses.

And yet all those people have nothing but praise for him. "So kind", "down to earth", "such a kind individual", "amazing experience", "such a nice guy", "had the most amazing time", "gonna watch his show now", "this guy is fit",...

[theiconicmeghanmarkle]

Meghan during the 2014 USO Holiday tour

[fitsofgloom]

Let's Swing A Little, Saint Nick: Joey Heatherton doing a wicked shimmy with Santa Claus, heading a USO tour, circa the mid-'60s.

[youhavenoideahowmuchihatethis]

I had a thought about the USO girls being protective of Steve and then I wrote this little thing. Enjoy!

...

“Goddam straps came loose during the song.”

The girls pool into the dressing room, laughing and chattering. Betty fiddles with the collar around her neck until it’s open where it connects in the back. She sighs in relief as she frees her breasts and pulls the pins out of her hair to get the ridiculous hat off, shaking out her red curls. The other girls start to undress as well, all eager to get out of their costumes and into their (slightly) more comfortable clothes. 

“Ya almost flashed the whole audience”, giggles Miriam, a pretty blonde who joined the group very recently.

“Please, imagine how many bonds would sell with these bombs” Betty says cheeky and shimmies her boobs to a song only she could hear. That earns her a few wolf whistles and howling laughter.

“Would have given the old bloke in the first row a heart attack” Ruth cackles. Betty knows exactly who she meant and giggles too. The guy’s eyes almost fell out just from seeing that much leg. 

“Forget the grandpa, Rogers would’ve gone up in flames right then and there on the stage.” Martha throws in, strapping a small watch around her wrist. “He always acts like he’s not seen us change a hundred times.”

“Nah, he’s just one of them catholics, they feel guilty about everythin’.”

“Ain’t that true!” yells a voice from the back of the room that Betty recognizes as Irene’s. When she isn't on stage she wears a simple silver cross around her neck. “I still hear the fucking nuns in my head when I start to enjoy myself.”

“Where is he anyways?” Miriam asks, looking around a bit.

Ruth sighs. “Probably being paraded around like a showpony again, poor fella.” 

“Can’t really blame them when he looks like the American dream with a cherry on top”, Martha says as she checks her makeup and hair in one of the many mirrors along the walls.

“And he’s such a gentleman too”, Miriam adds with a sigh. “You think he already has a dame?” Betty snickers internally. Oh, poor sweet girl.

“Rogers? Nah, he looks like a brick shithouse but he’s real delicate on the inside, if ya know what I mean”, Betty says conspiratorially and winks for good measure. She had already peeled herself out of the costume and currently buttons up her blouse.

“Well yeah, he’s a big softy, I noticed. He still could have a girl. I bet he’s a real romantic.”

Betty stops fiddling with the buttons. And she hesitates. Ruth silently meets her eyes. She could feel Martha looking too, as well as a few other girls who had been listening to the conversation. Miriam doesn’t seem to notice the sudden stillness, just rolling up her stockings  and securing them on her garters.

Well, Betty thought. Better to get it out now than Miriam finding out about it under different circumstances. Her eyes briefly wander over to where Alice is zipping up her dress. Sweet, quiet Alice, who writes letters to her ‘roommate’ almost daily and always seals them with a kiss when she thinks no one is watching her.

“No, I mean… He’s… He’s a man’s man, y’know?” Her voice is a lot quieter now than it was before and heavy with implication. Most of the girls already knew, but you can never know who might be walking by. They all like him. They all like Steve. They helped him get over his stage fright and he is a goddam cheat at every card game they’ve played so far. They all like him a lot.

Miriam's eyes widen when she understands. Her mouth opens and closes a few times, like a fish on land. 

“You mean… he’s one of them homos?” The last part came out in a whisper, the news clearly shocking to her.

Betty squares up her shoulders to appear taller than she is. Her expression turns cold. 

“Now you listen here Miriam, I’m sain’ this once ‘cause you’re young and new to the showbiz, but these people are everywhere and you’re a stage dancer, so you’ll meet a lot. And let me tell you Miriam, these are fine people who live their lives just as you do. They too just want a roof over their head, food on their table and this damn war to end. Who cares who they’re foolin’ around with.”

“But he’s-”

“Been nothing but nice to you, has he not? Was he not such a gentleman? So you’re gonna learn to accept him and those people and if you can’t, it’s you who’ll have to leave, got it?” Somewhere during her speech she had crossed her arms over her chest, giving Miriam a hard look.

Miriam looks at her with huge eyes and then nods.

Betty lets her frown melt away and gives Miriam a tiny smile and a nod back. Beside her she hears someone let out a long breath. It was Ruth.

“Well damn Betty, heart of gold and tongue of steel.”

Betty gives Ruth her biggest grin. “And bombs for tits, don’t you forget it.” She shimmies again and that breaks the serious and heavy air around them as they all laugh at her.

Martha leans in closer, a secret smile on her lips and a mischievous glint in her eye. “But do you think he has a fella?”

“Who knows?” She shrugs, but couldn’t hide the smirk.  “If he doesn’t I’m sure it’s no trouble finding one. I for sure wouldn’t have trouble if I had an ass like that.”

Screaming laughter erupts so loud that Betty is sure you could hear it in the audience.

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[flynnfan-downunder]

Errol Flynn and Martha O'Driscoll in Alaska for a USO tour 1943

[citizenscreen]

Popular with servicemen the world over for decades, Frances Langford performed with Bob Hope in combat zones during the Second World War, and later in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.

[elkleggs]

Teasers for my most recent patreon nonsense ✨

[aj-allen97]

New Fan MCU Theory:

If the lady that Steve Rogers lost his virginity to on the USO Tour was the same lady whose actress played Meredith Quill (who some speculate could be Meredith Quill grandmother) then that could mean Steve Rogers could be Peter Quills great grandfather.

I’m saying great grandparents because it looks like Meredith Quill was born in the 60s. So the lady in the fourties’ would be most likely Meredith Quill own grandmother. And also because of this;

Arrow points down towards two possible girls: a USO girl and a Unknown Women before panning up to another faceless girl - A possible daughter born from that one night stand?

So Super Solider Serum? Plus whatever Celestial DNA that can be passed on? Maybe it was more then puberty that allowed Peter Quill to survive the celestial energy? Maybe even with the death of Ego Peter Quill still has something enhanced going on in his DNA?

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Jared at the USO base in Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland 3/24/23 (mais.cherie ‘s IG story)