[2][3] After doing shows with Laurel and Hardy for four years, Thomas joined state-side USO tours for 10 months in 1943.

In 1944, Thomas and Hope, with singer Jerry Colona and Frances Langford and musician guitarist Tony Romano.

Also on the tour were singer Gale Robbins, musicians June Brenner and Ruth Denas, and comedians Roger Price and Jack Pepper.

Thomas entertained Troops not just on stage, she danced on the hood of Jeeps and on boards placed in mud due to tropical storms.

[6] On 14 August 1944, Hope, Thomas, and his tour group had one scary detour on the tour the team was flying in a United States Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina, called Spare Gear seaplane in Australia and one of the engines stopped working.

Thomas seeing everything going out the door, tied her tap dance shoes around her neck for safety and prayed.

After tossing out the tools and emergency supplies, the plane made an unplanned landing on the Camden Haven River in Laurieton, New South Wales.

Entertaining the Troops is noted as it has a reunion of Bob Hope's tour troupe, including Frances Langford, Patty Thomas and Tony Romano.

[citation needed] Patty is also remembered in the 1995 TV Movie, Bob Hope: Memories of World War II.

[16] The Library of Congress has a page on Patty Thomas and her service to the United States Armed Forces over the years.