Military Christmas Cards - All branches, all eras

[stbryson]

USS Oahu, Yangtze Patrol, Christmas 1938:

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USS Panay, Yangtze Patrol, Christmas Card (year unknown):

[Salvage Sailor]

...Heading overseas to Korea

 

Mele Kalikimaka - Merry Christmas

25 December 1951

Hickam Air Force Base

1500th Air Transport Wing

 

 

 

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Lets kick off this Topic for this Holiday Season with this Christmas Card of the 143rd Tank Battalion 43rd Infantry Division in Germany in around 1953.

[Thrifter_01]

A 1940 Christmas menu and roster for Company A, Thirty-Fifth Infantry at Schofield Barracks.

 

[patches]

A load of vintage 30s-40s Military Christmas Cards.

https://www.elinorflorence.com/blog/christmas-cards/

 

[Thrifter_01]

8th Army X-mas card, date unknown, but my guess is 1945-1947.

 

[US82Bravo]

 

Reception Center,  Ft. Lewis

 

 

 

 

Larry

[patches]

WWI, same basic illustration of Soldier, but with different backgrounds.

 

[stbryson]

USS Palos, Yangtze Patrol, Christmas 1933:

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USS Guam, Yangtze Patrol, 1933:

[stbryson]

USS Tutuila, Yangtze Patrol, 1934

[stbryson]

USS Tutuila, Yangtze Patrol, 1938  (Unfortunately, the envelope was opened on the bottom and part of the card was cut off)

[Salvage Sailor]

Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay, December 1945

first peacetime Christmas after the war

'Do you hear what I hear?' XMAS orders, Discharge, ...

 

 

Ten years later, same place, different name, December 1955

 

Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay

First Provisional Marine Air Ground Task Force, Fourth Marines (Reinforced), Marine Aircraft Group Thirteen

[stbryson]

USS Tutuila, Yangtze Patrol, Christmas 1939 (When I posted it before I had the wrong date):

[stbryson]

USS Panay, Yangtze Patrol, Christmas (unknown year):

[stbryson]

USS Oahu, Yangtze Patrol, Christmas 1932

USS Oahu, Yangtze Patrol, Christmas 1938

USS Oahu, Yangtze Patrol, Christmas late 1930s:

[stbryson]

USS Asheville, Christmas 1940:

[stbryson]

USS Augusta, Asiatic Fleet Flagship, Christmas 1938:

[stbryson]

USS Augusta, Asiatic Fleet Flagship, Christmas 1940:

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[otter42]

This is a copy of a card that someone gave me years ago.

[patches]

Still looking for an image that 2nd Infantry Division Christmas Card from the 70s, with no luck.

[Salvage Sailor]

On 12/24/2018 at 12:45 PM, Salvage Sailor said:

Hawaiian Division - 11th Field Artillery Brigade 1922 BG Grote Hutcheson (1862-1948)

 

 

 

 

HQ & HQ Detachment and Combat Train, 1st Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Schofield Barracks, T.H. 1922

 

 

 

 

Hawaiian Division - 11th Field Artillery Brigade 1922

 

 

 

1923 55th Coast Artillery, Fort Kamehameha, T.H.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time Warp, 100 year bump...

 

55th Coast Artillery, Hawaiian 'Taro' Division

December 25th, 1923

Fort Kamehameha, Hawaiian Department, T.H.

 

 

 

[DogDoc]

This is a menu from a 419th FA, 10th AD Christmas dinner from 43.  I found it in some of my grandfather’s stuff, his unit.