“Here it is Christmas Day,” my future father-in-law wrote his family in Uniontown in the middle of World War II. Corporal Bob Reynolds was stationed “Somewhere in India” with the 25th Field Hospital, ...

Somehow, I can recall Christmas seasons from 80-plus years past. I remember Christmas 1943, I was a 6-year -old, W orld W ar II was in full swing, and we were living on Moana Lane in Reno, Nev. My ...

It was Christmas time, the time of the year for joy and glad tidings but, in 1943 a world war was raging. Two years had passed since the attack on Pearl Harbor, and during that time the nation had ...

On Christmas Eve in 1943, the USS North Carolina sat anchored off a tiny volcanic island in the South Pacific, where crewmen tried to make merry in shoebox bunks stacked four high, half a globe away ...

Editor’s note: This column originally appeared in 2024. “Here it is Christmas Day,” my future father-in-law wrote to his family in Uniontown in the middle of World War II. Cpl. Bob Reynolds was ...

Crew aboard USS North Carolina staged a boisterous Christmas Eve 'smoker' in 1943. Chaplain Wuebbens raised funds and arranged Macy’s gifts and filmed messages. Sailors shared moments of home, then ...