Thank You for Your Service and Safe Return, Soldier!
In 1945, Marlene Dietrich kissed an American soldier returning from World War II in a Life Magazine cover story. Dietrich made a surprise visit to the USS Monticello’s troops while the ship was docked in New York City on its way to additional training in Europe. Her anti-Nazi activism during World War II was well known.
She clearly cared a great deal about the American soldiers! “As a 23-year-old, I had no idea she was the best thing since sliced bread. There were whispers that she was a movie star, so I was eager to have sex with her “When he was 96 years old, Carus Olcott, the soldier depicted, said.