Christmas Dinner on Guadalcanal - December 1942
Note the zoomed screenshot of the menu
LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer

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Lighted MERRY XMAS sign behind 65-ft. Christmas tree lit up by Italian bulbs strung up by Special Services & the 53rd Signal Battalion at the top of Radicosa Pass at 2500 ft. elevation, note direction signs to Bologna as MP stands guard, in the Apennine Mountains Italy - December 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - Margaret Bourke-White Photographer

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US WACs Dorothy Carpenter, Dorothy Dittwald & Sgt. Crawford decorate their tent for Christmas on the Italian front in the Appennine Mountains - December 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - Margaret Bourke-White Photographer

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Santa Claus arrives in Guadalcanal with a requisitioned Nissan sedan as his sleigh in December 1942
LIFE Magazine Archives - Ralph Morse Photographer

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WWII - Pacific War.
New Caledonia and the City of Noumea. The Citrus Bay with the US Army Camp located near the beach.

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The beautiful P-38 on the production line at the Lockheed 'Skunk Works' factory, circa 1941.
Taken from WW2 Fighters and Pilot's, with thanks.

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Corsair production by Chance Vought in Stratford, Connecticut and Goodyear Aircraft in Akron, Ohio

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