http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2513866/A-GI-Christmas-How-American-soldiers-bearing-gifts-extra-rations-proved-festive-hit-British-families-WWII.html

 

 

 

The Mighty Eighth!

The notes on the back of the pictures these men call themselves "The Tea Drinkers". I like the way some have put pictures of their girl friends or wives under the "tree".

Thank you sir for the post.

Christmas for many British kids was spent in an Anderson shelter!

 

 

A GI shares a Christmas ice-cream with a lucky British lad! Ice-cream in rationed, wartime Britain was a rarity for the population as a whole.

 

 

Christmas packages from home in the ETO.

 

Its pictures like these that remind me why our historical ties to the UK are so important even after you burnt the White House down.

Its pictures like these that remind me why our historical ties to the UK are so important even after you burnt the White House down.

 

Just "singed" it a little!