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"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B"
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"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B"

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If you think of female singers who are most closely associated with the second world war, and you are in England, you think of Vera Lynn. One of these days I’ll devote a column to her. But on our side of the pond, if you think of female singers and the second world war, you likely think of The Andrews Sisters. “Sister acts” were a commonplace in ente…

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