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Farm Girl Carrie @FarmGirlCarrie - Late in Bing Crosby's life, his nephew Howard asked him a casual question while they were out playing golf together.
"What was the single most difficult thing you ever had to do in your career?"
Howard expected Hollywood stories. Maybe gossip about a demanding director. Perhaps the pressure of a high-stakes film production or a struggle with studio executives.
Bing didn't have to think about it at all.
December 1944. Northern France. The war in Europe was grinding toward its bloody conclusion.
Bing Crosby was on a USO tour, performing for American GIs and British soldiers far from home during the coldest, darkest days of winter.
That night, they set up an open-air stage in a field.
Fifteen thousand soldiers gathered to watch. Bing was joined by Dinah Shore and the Andrews Sisters.
They sang, they joked, they made the men laugh and holler—a brief moment of joy in the middle of a war zone.
Then came the closing number.
"White Christmas."
The song had already become an anthem for homesick soldiers since its release in 1942. It played constantly on Armed Forces Radio. Men who hadn't seen their families in years, who didn't know if they ever would again, heard those opening notes and thought of snow-covered streets and Christmas trees and the homes they'd left behind.