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Christmas 1944

Gary Mitchell

Gary Mitchell

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Christmas 1944 so we could have Christmas in 2021.



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Out of four years in the Navy I only spent one year away from home. At Iwakuni Navil Air Sation, Japan, we did have snow to make it more like Christmas. The CO thought it would be a good idea for everyone to work Christmas day. I don't think a lot got done. Stan
 
(quoted from post at 18:58:09 12/24/21) Gary, that says it all....thanks for posting.
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Staff Sargent Marion Godwin.United States Army. My Father in law, that I never had the pleasure to meet.CM Lest we not forget.
 
Christmas 1944 found the First Canadian Army in Holland, driving the occupying army eastward into Germany and preventing them from encircling Allied forces to the south. The Canadian War Cemetery at Grosbeek has thousands of young Canadians buried there as a result of this action. To this day, Canadians are well received in Holland because of their sacrifices. The Allied forces have shown that which can be accomplished by working together. Thanks to all those brave young people.

Ben
 
Out of four years in the Navy I only spent one year away from home. At Iwakuni Navil Air Sation, Japan, we did have snow. The CO thought it would be a good idea for everyone to work Christmas day. I don't think a lot got done. Stan
 
That picture makes you think and be thankful for the freedoms we have becauce of all the boys who became men so many gave all and never made it home so we can enjoy this time of year with family and friends
 
Thanks to those that served anywhere. Dad was navy. Granddad was army ww1, step dad was Omaha beach, his brother was Normandy. Lost both of those last year. At 98 and 99 yrs old. Step dad wounded (shot)twice in 4 years. Uncle was army ww2, Korea, Vietnam.
 
I had one uncle in France in WWII, but he was a mechanic in Motor Transport behind the lines repairing equipment for those that were on the front lines.

Another uncle stationed on Attu in the Aleutian Islands, but I never heard whether he was involved in taking the Aleutians back from the Japanese or if he occupied them after the fact. He never said. He was a quiet, lifelong bachelor and never talked about anything very much.

An uncle in WWI, plus my father took the physical for the draft in WWI. He would have been in the next batch to go but the war ended and he didn't go.
 
I had an uncle the flew off of carriers in WW2 but he never talked about it. I was also stationed in Japan after the war and lived there for a number of years. e retired from the Navy
 
I too have an Allied connection, my grandfather on my mothers side was a tank gunner with the Canadian regiment from 39-45. He rarely spoke of it but never missed a formal opportunity to remember.
 
My father was in the Ardennes with the Royal Air Force Regiment holding the forward airfields in the winter of 1944. They were completely cut off but did not know it until the relief arrived.
 
A great Christmas post to help us never forget the brave souls that endured miserable conditions and gave their all for US.
 
My Dad's younger brother(Uncle Mike) was captured in the battle of the Bulge. He nearly died in POW camp, but an old German guard liked him and smuggled him food and medicine. Dad was a Supply Sargent in Hawaii. Mom's sister's husband( Uncle Henry) was on the USS Vestil at Pearl Harbor Dec. 7. Thank you to all who served!! When I turned 18 my draft lottery number was 361, I stayed home.
 
My grandfather was drafted but his employer said he was needed to much here to go. He was an engineer for Fairchild Industries and involved in aircraft design and other military manufacturing. Tom
 
I had 2 uncles in WWII. One was a mechanic on B-17's stationed in England and was known as the north dakota farmboy who could fix anything. The other was a flight engineer on B-17s ferrying them from the west coast plants to the east coast when another crew flew them to England. He never left the states.
 
I had a Uncle that was a gunner on a B-24 and was shot down in April of 1944. He was in the 347th Bomber Squadron, 99th Bomber Group. I was born in January of 44 so never got to see him. They were on a mission to bomb Steyr, Austria. His body is buried in St. Avoid, France.
 
I had two friends involved with the RAF. One an Austrian, Olympic metal skier, flew for the RAF and was shot down over occupied France. The other a little Jewish man was an airplane mechanic in Britain, got to fly the mosquito but never in combat, he went on to serve in the Israeli military after WWII.
 
My FIL spent Christmas eve floating in the English Channel after his troop ship the Leopoldville was sunk by a German sub. Went on after a brief hospital stay to the battle of the bulge. Never wanted to talk about it much, wounded there and got his second purple heart.
 
I lost an uncle in Germany during WW11, early 1945. I spent many Christmas's away from home, thanks to Korea, Vietnam and TDY While stationed in the USA and Germany! RA
 
My dad spent the Christmas of 44 in a German POW camp. He was a B-17 pilot shot down and all bailed out only to be captured. Radioman was shot on the ground just because he had Jewish dog tags.
 
My father was there. He spent his early time in the war with the 82nd (from N. Africa to dropping into Normandy) but was transferred into the 101st just in time to be trucked into Bastogne.
 
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