Military Christmas Cards - All branches, all eras

[DaddyDog]

I am adding to this post two Christmas Cards and dinner menus from my fathers service in Vietnam in 1966. First is the front cover and back side from the 1st Infantry Division, printed full page and folded in quarters.

 

Inside of 1st ID card.

 

 

The second card, cover and back.

 

Inside of the Silent Night Card.

Remembering the service men and women away from home this Christmas, and those in times past who did the same. May God truly bless them!

 

[USCapturephotos]

Inside of the Silent Night Card.

Remembering the service men and women away from home this Christmas, and those in times past who did the same. May God truly bless them!

Great words to our servicemen and servicewomen. Thanks for posting that DaddyDog.

Paul

[Nine O Nine]

Have posted both of these elsewhere but thought it appropriate to repost them here. Two 8th airforce Christmas cards from a bombardier in the 368th squadron of the 306th Bomb Group from Thurleigh. And from a pilot from the 384th. Bomb Group at Grafton Underwood.

 

Merry Christmas to everyone on the USMF

 

 

[ZeroAlpha]

"You're Cleared For Takeoff; Have A Very Merry Christmas"

[USCapturephotos]

Have posted both of these elsewhere but thought it appropriate to repost them here. Two 8th airforce Christmas cards from a bombardier in the 368th squadron of the 306th Bomb Group from Thurleigh. And from a pilot from the 384th. Bomb Group at Grafton Underwood.

 

Merry Christmas to everyone on the USMF

 

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Thanks for sharing these! I love them.

Paul

[RAZGY]

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[Salvage Sailor]

That time of year again.....

 

Marine Barracks Pearl Harbor 1941, printed in November 1941

 

 

 

USS MARINETTE (YTB-791) Decked out for Christmas at Norfolk, VA 1972

 

[Bill Scott]

I found this yesterday going through a box of stuff I forgot I owned.The first person that posts that they want it can have it for free.After you post on the forum PM me your address and I will send it to you free of charge.I looked at all ten pages of the Posts and none had a CBI patch on it with a China connection.Scotty

[steve h]

I would very much like this if no one else has claimed it.

Steve

[Bill Scott]

Steve H claimed the CBI Christmas card.Scotty

[Salvage Sailor]

For the Devil Dogs, with Saipan, Tinian, Guam and Peleliu behind them, Iwo and Okinawa ahead.

 

Christmas Greetings December 25, 1944 - Headquarters Fleet Marine Force Pacific

 

 

 

Service Company, H&S Battalion FMF PAC Oahu, Territory of Hawaii December 25th, 1944

The small print under the wreath is the outfit that made these: Sixth Base Depot Reproduction

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Hawaiian Division Pack Train 1930's

[Salvage Sailor]

Going back over these posts, there are some truly spectacular cards and menus that members have posted.

 

How about some Coast Artillery with a regal twist - Christmas Dinner December 25, 1939

Company "A" Fifty-fifth, Coast Artillery, U.S.Army Fort Kamehameha, T.H.

King Kamehameha's Royal Seal (then the Territorial and later the State of Hawaii crest)

 

 

 

King Kamehameha I, conqueror and ruler of the Hawaiian Kingdom

This statue is now in front of the Supreme Court building, facing Iolani Palace

 

Maps of the Hawaiian Kingdom including their battle sites

 

 

Kauai and Maui

 

 

The Company at Fort Kamehameha manning the batteries protecting Pearl Harbor

 

 

Yardlong at same location wearing their hats with their Great War battle streamers on their guidon

 

[Salvage Sailor]

259th Quartermaster Company (Air Base) Hickam Field, Territory of Hawaii

Formerly Quartermaster Detachment Hawaiian Department, Hickam Field

December 25th, 1940 - The last peacetime Christmas for the Hawaiian Division

 

 

Many of the men seated here were also present on December 7th, 1941 including then PFC Michael Fisher.

 

LT Michael Fisher, 517 PIR http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mcall/obituary.aspx?pid=173172654

HQ Company 1st Battalion 517th PIR Christmas 1944 http://517prct.org/documents/xmas1944/christmas_1944_searchable.pdf

 

Sadly, 1st LT Michael Fisher, Company B, 1st Bat., HH&C, 517th PIR passed away just after midnight on 13 November 2014. He was on the Army’s championship pistol team and held a record for rifle at Fort Benning for many years. He is and will be greatly missed by his family and friends. He was a fighter until the end. He was a veteran of Pearl Harbor, The Bulge and Korea. Lt. Michael Fisher was the Jumpmaster in for Plane #17 during Operation Dragoon.

 

Plane 17 – Lt. Fisher, Jumpmaster - Jumped at 0505 and landed about three miles Northeast of Lorgues. The equipment bundles were found, most of the stick assembled, and they began to march to the Battalion objective. Just East of Lorgues, they encountered an enemy patrol and forced the enemy to withdraw. They received word that American troops were trapped in Lorgues, so they attempted to go into the town, encountered fire, but forced the enemy out. They then moved toward Les Arcs, being forced into hiding during the day because of the presence of large numbers of enemy troops. They moved into Les Arcs and joined a fire fight in progress between American troops and the enemy. They remained there until “D” Plus 2 at which time they withdrew to the Regimental CP and rejoined the Company on “D” Plus Three.

 

 

[338thRCT]

From the 45th Inf Div in Korea 1953

[BOLO]

a soldier in Vietnam receives a Christmas card from his wife in 1966

[Squad leader]

A WWII Xmas card from Paris.

 

[firefighter]

[firefighter]

Here are some cards I posted in a different thread, http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/271405-special-forces-ranger-christmas-cards-1980/?hl=%2Bspecial+%2Bforces

[Sarge8]

I was asked to post this over here. This is from a Flight Nurse in the 809th MAES , WW2, Pacific

 

 

 

Sarge8

[Salvage Sailor]

Mele Kalikimaka 2016

Pearl Harbor Naval Station - Vietnam War 1967

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Christmas 1944 - USS NELSON (DD-623),

Veteran of Sicily and Normandy, then preparing for more Atlantic convoy escort runs before heading to the Pacific in mid 1945

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

Mele Kalikimaka 1944 - Pearl Harbor Officer's Receiving Station

Christmas Dinner for Naval Officer's coming from and going to the Pacific war theater

 

 

 

[Salvage Sailor]

December 25th, 1944 "U.S. Submarine Base" (Pearl Harbor, T.H.)

 

 

On heavy card stock - Santa's wartime rank, two star admiral.....

 

1944 U.S. Submarine Base Pearl Harbor, T.H.

Captain E.R.Swinburne commanding

[37thguy]

Heres mine for the year.

 

 

 

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