Celebrities leave New York City, NY, to perform for overseas US troops, and Joe E. Brown performs for troops in Papua New Guinea in 1943

Hollywood stars Carole Landis, Mitzi Mayfair, Kay Francis, and Martha Raye with Customs official at LaGuardia airport in NYC as they leave to entertain overseas troops during World War II / CU Mayfair with her passport / Francis with hers / Raye with hers / comedian Joe E. Brown deplanes at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, to perform for troops; he shakes hands with Col. Joe P. Sherr of the US Signal Corps / montage troops watch, laugh as Brown performs / soldier in wheelchair laughs, applauds / CU Brown performs his "Elmer the Great" character playing baseball / from Greatest Headlines of the Century series / Note: [exact dates not known]