Christmas

A custom Christmas card from Jay Rosencrantz, Christmas, 1944, in China.

First page of a letter from Ernest W. Garner who was lost on a flight in China during 1945. (Click here for second page)

Christmas 1944 in one of the 491st Bm Sq enlisted men's hostels at Yangkai base, Yunnan province, China. In his book "Diary of A Bomb Squadron" McKay Nelson wrote, "Christmas was celebrated quietly. A truckload of Christmas packages for the squadron came in, early in the evening. Midnight Mass had to be cancelled due to a 'Jing Bao' air raid...

Santa Claus, in full costume, makes an air transport arrival in the CBI during WWII.

Christmas in the barracks at Yangkai, China, 1944. James Devol, Louis Macaluso, Vincent Luccarelli. See similar image in Frank Willard Bates collection here.

Luichow Kid LD Jones, William "Wild Bill" Gornik (engineer-gunner; on the right, sitting on the bunk), Schmidt, CE Jones. Christmas at Yangkai, China 1944. From the collection of Frank Bates.

Christmas in the barracks at Yangkai, China, 1944. James Devol, Louis Macaluso, Vincent Luccarelli. See similar image in Wozniak collection here.

Sgt. Robert E. Hogue of Florida gets a Christmas haul of presents, a record of 13 packages. He hired a Chinese boy to help him carry them.