We wish a merry birthday to holiday icon Peter Billingsley, who turns 40 today. That’s right, people, the kid from A Christmas Story is a full-on middle-aged man!
fuckyeahcanadianforces: Canadian and German troops on the Western Front. This appears to be during the 1914 Christmas truce.
Christmas in the Field: “Men of Co “F”, 9th Inf Regt, 2nd U.S. Inf Div, enjoy their Christmas Day dinner at CO HQS, Korea. 25 December 1951.”
What did you get today?
Look what Dad got me for himself!
Christmas in the Field - World War II: “‘Santa Claus’ may find a barracks chimney too narrow and try the windows, so that’s a good place for socks and a helmet say Pvts. Kotula and Queen as they put more Army issue socks where Santa may turn into the barracks. Camp Lee, Virginia, Quartermaster Center. December 1941.”
Christmas in Korea: “Korean KP decorates Christmas tree set up in front of serving counter of HQs & HQs Co, 19th Inf Regt, 24th US Inf Div, as Christmas Day dinner is readied for men of the Co. Korea. 25 December 1951.”
From the blog of Bronx artist Charles George Esperanza: “I never draw guns but Christmas movies have inspired me to draw them!”
Christmas in the Field - Soldiers sing “O, Come Ye, O Come Ye, To Bethlehem”. Iceland, 1942.
Christmas in the Field - Through the Years Vietnam Era: “‘Santa Claus’ talks with a group of hospital patients during the Bob Hope Christmas Show. 22-29 Dec 1970.”
“Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.”
~Charles Dickens
Merry Christmas from Die Hard (1988).
Christmas in the Field-World War II: “25 Dec 1944. Sgt. Edward F. Good feeds his buddy a leg of Christmas turkey, Pfc. Lloyd Deming. Both are casualties at the 2nd Field Hosp, (San Jose, Mindoro, PI)”
Christmas in the Field: “Sgt. Joseph H. Kadlec approaches crossroads leading to Roetgen and Stolberg, Germany, loaded with his first batch of Xmas packages. Kadlec belongs to an infantry unit bivouacked nearby. 11/14/44”
Christmas in the Field: “The panzer ‘Santa’, with well-filled sack of radios, books, cookies, and other gifts dear to soldiers hearts, glides up to the door of the barracks in Camp Lee’s Quartermaster Corps and it isn’t hampered by lack of snow in Virginia. Camp Lee, Virginia, Quartermaster Replacement Center. December 1941.”
