Christmas 1944 was by all accounts an unsettled time, both overseas and here in Licking County. It was the previous December, of 1943, that “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” launched onto the scene, ...

Americans are reminded of the deep emotions of wartime holidays today in the ironically idyllic words of "White Christmas." The World War II anthem is so powerful it became, and remains, the most ...

No home, no mother, wife or children. Just sixteen men crowded in a room in a German prison camp. The camp is about as far north as one can get in Germany. "Barth on the Baltic", romantically referred ...

The snow lay white again upon the stony soil of New England, the grey distances of the plains, the towering Western mountains; once more poinsettias bloomed in the South’s red soil. In Boston’s fabled ...

Christmas includes the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle fought by the United States. This was hell on earth. On Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi Germany launched an enormous ...

A little over 60 years ago a bunch of very nervous young boys were unloaded from a cold, noisy army of half track vehicles in the snowy darkness of the Ardennes Forest in Germany. The whistle and then ...

Animas Museum will host its Second Saturday Seminar Series at 1 p.m. Dec. 14 with a look back at how La Plata County celebrated Christmas in 1944. That Christmas saw county residents serving in the ...

Jeff Himler Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023 5:01 a.m. | Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023 5:01 a.m. Learn more • Visit leopoldville.org for more information about the 1944 sinking of the SS Leopoldville. • Stories Behind ...

What’s Merry about all this, you ask? We’re fighting — it’s cold, we aren’t home. All true but what has the proud Eagle Division accomplished with its worthy comrades the 10th Armored Division, the ...

Arthur I. Cyr is author of "After the Cold War" (NYU Press and Madmillan) and other books. Contact him at [email protected] Christmas includes the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest ...