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Christmas

Banquet at Christmas, 1944, at Chanyi (Zhanyi), during WWII.
GIs Ed Cahill and Marion Thomas join a Kachin Christmas celebration on December 25, 1944, in Burma. 797th Engineer Forestry Company. During WWII.
Local people in Burma near the 797th Engineer Forestry Company--A Kachin Christmas celebration on December 25, 1944, in Burma. During WWII.
Local people in Burma near the 797th Engineer Forestry Company--A Kachin girl dress for Christmas on December 25, 1944, in Burma. During WWII.
Local people in Burma near the 797th Engineer Forestry Company--A Kachin girl dress for Christmas on December 25, 1944, in Burma. During WWII.
Christmas gifts for Chennault from Chinese people in 1944. Prof. Liang Chao Cha represented civilian community at large. Brig. General Edgar E. Glenn at the right. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.
Chennault receives a bundle of Christmas greeting from China's children at the hand of his Chief Interpreter, Col. P. Y. Chu. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.
Chennault holds Tayng Wong and Toong Di, who had come with Col P. Y. Shu, interpreter, to present Chennault Christmas greetings written by grade school children. During WWII. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.
"Hurry up and wait to go home": GIs at a military base in the CBI lined up waiting to return to the US after the war. Image provided by Michael J. O'Brien.