'Men I Met in Bed': Meet a WWII USO Artist

Artist Lila Oliver Asher compiled her sketches and letters in a book.

ByABC News
May 23, 2015, 1:28 PM

— -- Lila Oliver Asher traveled the country during World War II with the U.S.O., sketching portraits of hospitalized servicemen as part of the volunteer Hospital Sketching Program. The drawings were intended to provided entertainment for immobile soldiers.

Asher, 93, compiled her sketches and letters in a book she published called "Men I Met in Bed." These sketches are now on display at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., alongside a unique exhibit of war letters from the Second World War. These letters have been compiled and preserved by historian Andrew Carroll.

Watch the ABC Digital Original above to learn more about Lila Asher and Andrew Carroll.