Photograph of Jack Benny playing violin on stage with a small orchestra. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "Jack Benny playing the violin- he can really play it."

Photograph of Ernest Stanczyk playing an accordion while standing in front of a United States Army truck.

Photograph of Jacob Gotfryd and two other friends playing instruments on the steps in front of a building.

Photograph of Walter Conrad and another unidentified soldier sitting on stairs leading to an open door and playing instruments. The man on the left plays a banjo, and the man on the right plays an accordion.

Photograph of ornately carved organ over the archway of a cathedral in Fulda, Germany.

Photograph of musicians standing on a stage, surrounded by several performers, with an audience of soldiers in the foreground.

Photograph of a woman standing on a stage behind a microphone, with three musicians standing behind her. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "USO Show, Bopfingen."

Photograph of two women dancing on a stage with four musicians standing behind them and a crowd of soldiers in the foreground. A handwritten note on the back of the photo says "USO Show, Bopfingen."

Photograph of soldiers marching in a field, with a marching band near the edge of the field behind them.

Photograph of three members of the 134th Armored Division sitting on steps in a doorway. The man on the left is playing an accordion, and the man on the right is playing a mandolin. One of the men is identified as Jacob Gotfryd.

Photograph of a large red building with lights lit up around and inside of it. It is night and the sky is dark.

Photograph of building with orange light illuminating the words "Schottenhamel Spatenbrau". It is night and the sky is dark. There is a crowd of people in front of and around the entrance to the building.

Photograph of building with orange light illuminating the words "Schottenhamel Spatenbrau". It is night and the sky is dark. There is a crowd of people in front of and around the entrance to the building.

The photograph is of the Stan Kenton orchestra boarding a plane.

Photograph of a building lit up by white, red, and blue lights. It is night, and there is a blue star inside a red circle at the top of the building. On the front of the building, there is a circular picture of a person on a horse. Below the picture are the words "Bräurosl Festwirt Georg Heide". There is a large crowd of people in front of the building.

Photographs of two locations around Rüsselsheim, Germany. The first two photos are of a house where Wolfgang Mozart composed music. One uniformed soldier poses nearby in the first photo, while Joe Hurt and Technical Sergeant Nelson stand near the building in the second. The image to the bottom left contains an ivy covered castle gate tower. The structure is conical and built of crumbling stone and has several thin windows. In the fourth photo, Don Melli and a soldier named Nelson pose in front of the tower.