Christmas 1944 was by all accounts an unsettled time, both overseas and here in Licking County. It was the previous December, of 1943, that “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” launched onto the scene, ...

Christmas includes the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle fought by the United States. The battle was hell on earth. On Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi Germany launched an enormous ...

The snow lay white again upon the stony soil of New England, the grey distances of the plains, the towering Western mountains; once more poinsettias bloomed in the South’s red soil. In Boston’s fabled ...

For soldiers in France listening to Bing Crosby sing "White Christmas" in December 1944, home must have seemed far away. The legendary crooner, who first sang the song that reminisces about snowy ...

Soldiers eat a Christmas dinner on the hood of a jeep in France. Eighty years ago, American troops were home for Christmas for the first time in years. For the previous four years, troops had faced ...

Animas Museum will host its Second Saturday Seminar Series at 1 p.m. Dec. 14 with a look back at how La Plata County celebrated Christmas in 1944. That Christmas saw county residents serving in the ...

Christmas Day 1944 never came for four Westmoreland County natives and 759 fellow servicemen who were passengers on a World War II troop transport ship headed for Cherbourg, France. On Christmas Eve, ...

A version of this column was originally published Dec. 20, 2019, in the Erie Times-News. Everywhere one looked on Dec. 25, 1944, Christmas lugged an asterisk. "Reverence and solemnity vied with ...

What’s Merry about all this, you ask? We’re fighting — it’s cold, we aren’t home. All true but what has the proud Eagle Division accomplished with its worthy comrades the 10th Armored Division, the ...

Eighty years ago, American troops were home for Christmas for the first time in years. For the previous four years, troops had faced holidays away from family, and in whatever conditions the war ...