TIL UK's highest-paid entertainer in WW2, George Formby, went to Normandy after the landings, & gave 9 shows to frontline troops who’d held out for 56 days without relief, his audience in foxholes. He also crawled through trenches to tell jokes when the enemy was too close for a show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby#Beginning_a_stage_career:_1921%E2%80%931934
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