USO Club Library

ID: 5505 ~ Source: L87-1.26355-42 The Eastern Washington State Historical Society Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture ~ Creator: Charles Libby ~ Date: December 31, 1942
This file appears in: USO Clubs in Spokane
USO Club Library

Uso clubs provided many different forms of entertainment including libraries for soldiers who just wanted a quiet place to relax and read. The American Library Association assembled over 117 million books to give to USO clubs and military base libraries as part of the Victory Book Campaign.

This file appears in: USO Clubs in Spokane

By Devrick Barnett
When the United States entered the Second World War President Roosevelt felt a need to create a home-based organization to provide recreational activities for soldiers. The United Service Organization or USO was then founded and USO clubs began…