Captioned: "USO Troupe - Mickey Rooney and members of his show feed troops chow; right to left are : Dick Winslow, Mickey Rooney, Deenah Prince, Alice Tyrrell, and Red Barry. In the 1940s the USO was disbanded due partly to lack of funds. However, in 1950, when the United States entered the Korean War, Secretary of Defense George Marshall and Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews requested that the USO be reactivated. Many stars, both well-known and new, came to perform. " Mickey Rooney (September 23, 1920 - April 6, 2014) was an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. By the end of the war, over 113,000 American USO volunteers were working at 294 centers at home and abroad. Photograph credited to Corporal John Scoblic, USMC, October 12, 1952.