Meeting the Stars!

The 509th MPs were assigned the job of providing an escort for actress Dinah Shore & actor Edward G. Robinson, who were entertaining the GIs at various stops in France. When Robinson requested to talk to a German POW, the MPs had to put an American officer in German uniform to play the role since the POW cages were empty at the time. It worked, and Robinson never knew the POW that he supposedly talked to was really just an American soldier with good acting skills.  Photo is of Captain Leonard Bloomenthal from Peter’s battalion escorting Dinah.