As Christmas approached in December 1944, many Americans believed World War II in Europe was nearing its end. Allied armies had broken out of Normandy, liberated Paris, and pushed toward Germany. But ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christmas 1941 was little different for most Americans from that of the previous year, despite the calamity of Pearl Harbor only ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By 1942, as the United States plunged headlong into a world war, many men found themselves in far-flung places with names soon to ...
Before Christmas in 1948, three U.S. Air Force pilots in Germany got a brilliant idea to help Santa Claus. Lt. Jack La Marr of Long Island, Capt. Sherwood Drumm of Massachusetts and Lt. F. Konop of ...
On Christmas Eve, 1915, John Ayscough, a Catholic chaplain with the British Expeditionary Force in France, wrote a letter to his mother which probably captured the feelings of many Europeans during ...
Staff Sgt. Carroll “Bud” Kelsh wasn’t one of the lucky ones who made it home for Christmas following the end of World War II in 1945. After spending three months recovering in French and English ...
A top historian offers a compelling history of perhaps the most remarkable holiday season in 20th-century history--December 1941--a Christmas season that played out in the shadows of the Pearl Harbor ...
Staff Sgt. Shawn McGovern sings 'You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,' accompanied by the Grinch himself, during the 282nd Army Band's holiday performance at the Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia, S.C., ...
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