Benjamin Blubaugh played in the 29 th Division band. On the Christmas Day radio broadcast, he joined sergeants Jose Casanova and Sol Lurie of Baltimore, Warrant Officer Larry Smigel of Philadelphia, ...

In January of 1940, the biggest winter storm in half a century hit Houston, Texas, dusting the streets with three inches of snow. It wasn’t much, as snowfall goes, but without it Bonnie White might ...

“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, ...

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 ...

If the thought of making a big Christmas dinner for a house full of family and friends strikes fear into your heart, imagine trying to cook for 8,000 ravished Navy sailors ... in the middle of a war.

After a USO troupe can’t perform, talented members of the 8th Air Force celebrate Christmas Eve with songs, stories and swing dancing in "Christmas 1943," a WWII-era holiday musical presented by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada sit down for their Christmas dinner in 1943, in Ortona, Italy, just a few blocks ...

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 ...

When I was very little, just past 6, my dad would take me to look for Santa on Christmas Eve. While we were gone, my mother would pile the presents on the front porch, and wait for our return. We ...

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 ...