Military Christmas Cards - All branches, all eras

[37thguy]

WW1

 

Merry Christmas to you and yours this year here on the forum. You are a great bunch of guys....AND gals. Thank you for making this forum the best!

 

Mark

37thguy

[USARV72]

 

CBI USAAF

 

Troop ship on the way home.

 

 

 

1st Cav and from ARVN general.

 

 

[kyhistorian01]

front cover Christmas dinner menu, USS Colorado 1936

[rr01]

I send out something like this every year to the active duty forces as well as my retired buddies. No, it ain't historical but each team used to send out a group photo card every year to all the other units. I don't know what they do now but this how I maintain what I used to do. My 2011 should be done in the next 36 hours.

[hirsca]

Another piece from the scrapbook of the Marine Veteran from whose grouping of items I have posted several things recently. After the retreat from the Wake Island loss to the Japanese, the USS Tangier and her task force stopped at Midway Island on their way back to Pearl Harbor. She then disenbarked the men and equipment of VMF-221 where they participated in the Battle of Midway. Merry Christmas to all of the Forummers! Thanks, Al Hirschler in Dallas.

[Fixbayonets!]

WWII photo Christmas postcard.............

[Championhilz]

WW I Christmas card from an artilleryman in the AEF:

 

I picked up this Christmas card from an online postcard seller because the soldier who sent it was in the same unit as my dad in WW II - the 18th Mechanized Cavalry Recon. Squadron. Shortly after this card was written, the unit was heavily engaged during the Battle of the Bulge, and many of the men in the 18th were killed or captured.

[TLHSS]

Menu cover from the Marine Barracks at Saint Thomas, 1929.

 

Merry Christmas ... Tim

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Hawaiian Division Christmas Dinner Menu, 22nd Infantry Brigade

December 25th, 1939, Schofield Barracks, T.H.

 

 

Hawaiian Division, Schofield Barracks Hospital

Christmas Party, Friday December 22nd, 1939

 

Seasons Greetings, USS KIOWA (ATF-72)

 

USS PRESERVER (ARS-8) Christmas Menu, December 25th, 1944, (CENSORED), South Pacific

 

 

 

[RustyCanteen]

I really like the Hawaiian Div one in the post above, could we have a larger image?

 

RC

[Salvage Sailor]

RustyCanteen said:

I really like the Hawaiian Div one in the post above, could we have a larger image?

 

RC

 

Sure,

 

The short answer is Yes, long answer, when I find it! It's somewhere in my warehouse with a bunch of others. That Hawaiian Division DUI template was used for about a decade on most Thanksgiving & Christmas menus for all of the organic units. It also included a formal seated photograph of the entire unit & sometimes a roster too.

 

But, while I was looking for it, I came across some others.

 

So Thanks! Here they are.....

 

Mele Kalikimaka - Merry Christmas!

Service Company - 35th Infantry - 1937

 

[Salvage Sailor]

25th Infantry Division - Korea - Friday 25 December 1953

 

[BEAR]

A friend of mine, Tom Walsh, was a WWII vet and served over 30 years in the US Army. During the war he was part of the "Red Ball Express". He died this last May and I recieved from his guardian many items from his military service especially lots of military books. While perusing through a book named INFANTRY REGIMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY this Christmas Menu fell out. Tom's unit was not in England during Christmas of 1943 and he was a corporal until the end of the war. He was in France in 1944 so I feel this menu must date from then. I do not know the specific unit to which Tom was assigned and I tried to google the Co's name (no luck). Maybe someone else can find out.

BEAR

 

[gunbunny]

Here's a few. I posted these earlier in another area. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!


Some V-Mail Christmas greetings.

[12thengr]

From an earlier post.

[wildcat123]

Here is Patton's famous 1944 Christmas greeting. One side wishes Merry Christmas, the other is the prayer for better weather during Battle of the Bulge. From the grouping of an 80th Infantry Division officer.

[patches]

WWII photo Christmas postcard.............

 

GEEZ, I did a double take at first,that guy almost looks like Charlie Sheen !

[deddygetty]

Fixbayonets! said:

WWII photo Christmas postcard.............

 

Hey, isn't that Martin Sheen? "WINNING!"

 

Have to admit, there is a striking resemblance.

 

Mostly 2d Cavalry Regiment 1922-48 from another thread.

CHRISTMAS CARDS

[seanmc1114]

1968 Christmas card from the 3rd Brigade 82nd Airborne Division in Vietnam

 

1968 Thanksgiving card with menu from the U.S. Army, Vietnam (USARV)

[67Rally]

[Bob Hudson]

Well we had fresh snow in San Diego County last weekend, so it's seems appropriate to revive a wintery topic.

 

I've been doing spring cleaning in my crowded shop and keep coming up with surprises.

 

This one is a hand made Christmas card drawn on captured Japanese message pad paper.

 

[MPage]

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[scubastan]

Christmas Menu Japan 1950 1

 

Christmas Menu Japan 1950 2

 

Christmas Menu Japan 1950 3

[renfield]

I thought I should post some cards from the 8th AAF and B-17 related cards.

Steve

 

 

 

 

 

[renfield]

I wonder how many of these are still around? This was in with my dads things.

Steve