Remembering E.N.S.A from WW2

The lady with the barrel organ, collecting for an armed forces charity, and an accordianist who played
with E.N.S.A (The Entertainments National Service Association) entertained the crowds at
the Sheringham 1940s event, as the ENSA groups did during the war, helping to raise the morale
of our fighting forces, even if the initials were sometimes jokingly interpreted as ‘Every Night
Something Awful’, as this gentleman reminded me.

Vera Lynn, whose wartime hit, We’ll Meet Again, is currently at the top of the UK album charts
seventy yars after it was recorded, was a well known ENSA performer. I remember her
well and, like so many others of my generation, have happy memories of meeting her,
although that was after the war.

 Has anyone else here any personal or handed-down memories of ENSA, or USA alternatives?

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