Carole and World War 2 During World War 2 Carole spent more time visiting troops than any other actress. She joined the Hollywood Victory Committee and entertained soldiers all over the world. The press called her "a heroine" and "pride of the yanks". Here are some of her adventures during the war -
Carole toured the country selling war bonds and visited more than 250 military bases across the United States. In September 1942 she visited the Mare Island Navy Yard and sang for the soldiers in the hospital ward.				She became a member of the Naval Aid Auxiliary and the Red Cross. Carole collected cigarettes for the soldiers, taught first aid, and donated blood as often as she was allowed.
In November 1942 she went on a five month tour of England and Africa with Mitzi Mayfair, Kay Francis, and Martha Raye. Carole met her husband Tommy Wallace during this tour and wrote about her experiences in the book Four Jills In A Jeep.				Carole became one of the soldier's favorite pin-up girls and they nicknamed her "The Blonde Bomber". During an appearance on the Command performance radio show one soldier requested that she "just sigh" into the microphone.
In June 1944 she began a two month tour of the South Pacific with Jack Benny, singer Martha Tilton, harmonica player Larry Adler, and pianist June Bruner. Carole spent a lot of time visiting wounded soldiers and she wrote hundreds of letters to their families.				While in the South Pacific Carole almost died from malaria and amoebic dysentery. She lost fifteen pounds and would suffer the lingering effects of these illnesses for the rest of her life.
During their shows Carole sang and jitterbugged with the soldiers. Jack Benny said "You soon forgot she was Carole Landis, the sex symbol, the Hollywood star, the sweater girl, because she was a real human being and had a warm heart that spilled over with kindness".				She was a hostess at the Hollywood Canteen and spent countless evenings dancing with the soldiers. Carole turned her Santa Monica beach house into a canteen and invited soldiers to stay there every weekend.
She was an Air Raid Warden, a commander in the Aerial Nurses Corps, and an honorary Colonel in the American Legion. Carole auctioned off her favorite opal ring to raise money for war bonds and she donated several movie projectors to bases overseas.				Carole traveled more than 125,000 miles during the war. She visited Australia, Africa, Brazil, Algeria, Bermuda, Scotland, England, New Guinea, Ireland, Guam, and New Zealand.
In November 1944 Carole wrote an article for Mast magazine titled "United We Stand" - Hitler wasn't guessing when he incorporated into his psychological warfare the strategy of "divide and conquer." It worked in Norway and it worked in France, and because there is no immunity to Fascism, it's trying hard right here in the United States. There is one antidote. We've got to remember that we're all in this together. British, Russians, Chinese. And French-Polish-Yugoslav-Jewish-Irish-Mexican-English or what-have-you-Americans. Indians, whites, and Negroes. Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, boys in the AAF or Merchant Marine. And civilians. Yes, civilians. All the names from Pearl Harbor onwards are written on our memories and on our hearts and in your steel and your blood and your courage. The exploits at home aren't of this kind. But believe me, boys, they do exist. In two and a half short years, the country has rolled up its sleeves, and our production record can be heard in the planes that roar over Germany; our War Bond record is built into every tank and destroyer, and the blood banks of the Red Cross are only one of the "musts" on the daily lists of the men and women on the home front. None of us here can give as much as you. We all know it. That's why there is such a determination to give all we can, in time, spirit, money, work. We believe in you. We know you're good. But you've got to believe in us, too, because the home front is also a fighting front. And because this belief, this unity, brings the day of Victory right up there in plain sight. Unity is the one thing Hitler and his cohorts cannot cope with.