Thanksgiving Day 1944—Relived

National World War II Museum ^ | November 25, 2020 | Roland Gaul

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To commemorate Thanksgiving, we asked our friend Roland Gaul to write about the unique experience that American GIs and Luxembourg civilians shared during November of 1944. Gaul has been involved with the Museum since we began leading our own educational tours of battlefields across the world, and the The National Museum of Military History Museum, which he helped establish was one of the highlights of that, and subsequent visits to the Ardennes.

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My Grandfather who was stationed as a cook on the island of Turk as a cook spoked of cooking Thanksgiving dinner and said he tried not to think to much about the dates on the cans, but he sure he cook that turkey a little more well done because of it,