Dec 22, 2013 · When World War II came to the United States with the bombing of Pearl Harbor just weeks before Christmas 1941, Santa Claus was again deployed to help with the war effort. Santa urged...

Dec 18, 2017 · Less than a year after the U.S. declared war on Japan, in November 1942, the first female department store Santa seems to have appeared in Chicago. “The manpower shortage has even hit old Saint...

Dec 25, 2024 · Helmeted and bewhiskered GI Santa Claus handing out presents to wounded American soldiers on Christmas day in 90 degree weather outside field hospital during World War Two in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands Twenty Fifth December 1943. I didn’t know Santa Claus fought at Guadalcanal, but there is photographic proof brought to you by LIFE Magazine.

Dec 25, 2014 · President Franklin Roosevelt must have really loved Santa Claus. On Oct. 3, 1942, in the midst of World War II and the tail-end of the greatest economic depression to hit the United States, FDR...

Dec 18, 2023 · From holiday dinners to gifts and trees, this is what Christmas looked like during World War II for both soldiers on the front lines and their loved ones back home.

Dec 9, 2022 · Christmases during World War II had an underlying feeling of melancholy for both the Americans serving overseas, as well as those on the homefront with empty places at the dinner table.

During both World War I and World War II, Santa Claus was used as a patriotic figure to advertise the purchase of war bonds and support patriotism during times of war. Every Christmas became a "military Christmas" to some degree, trying to push citizens to …

Dec 23, 2021 · Christmas looked a lot different during World War II. Here's how those on the Home Front and overseas celebrated the holiday.

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” from playing Santa Claus and delivering gifts to the troops. The World War II years included six Christmases from the war’s beginning on September 1, 1939 through the surrender of Japan in August of 1945.

Santa Claus, wearing red shorts on a 90 degree day, visited a field hospital during the Guadalcanal campaign, 1942. He toured hospitals around the island in a Chevrolet captured from Japanese forces and gave out presents supplied by the Red Cross.