It was the first peacetime Christmas for much of the World since 1938, although in some areas of the globe new wars and the continuation of old wars raged on.
A souvenir edition of Stars and Stripes was put out for occupation forces in the Pacific. It featured a 1946 calendar I'll decline to put up of pinup illustrations, in black and white, starting with a clearly Asian woman, chest hidden behind the month, followed by eleven other such girls until the last three months of the year in which the figures are much more clothed and American, with the suggestion being that the surprised GI is surprised in those months by the pursuit of an American girl whom he likely marries.
Japanese Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara was sentenced to death by hanging for his role in the mass execution of the 98 American civilians on Wake Island on October 7, 1943. He yelled out, prior to his sentencing, that Americans were equally as complicit due to the atomic bomb strikes earlier that year.
According to the Rocky Mountain News:
Truman pardoned 4,000 Federal convicts who had served in the Armed Forces during the war.
The RMN also contained cheesecake for its Christmas edition, with a picture of an 18 year old Miss Finland.
Normally I wouldn't have posted that either, but I'm struck by how much older than 18 she looks. Photographs of late teens of the era, male and female, tend to show people who look older than the same ages today.
Bill Mauldin was appearing in stateside papers.
The Cold War was clearly arriving.
Noel Redding of the Jimi Hendrix Experience was born in Folkstone, England. He's pass away in 2003.
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