FReeper Canteen - Tunes for Our Troops - 29-Dec-2012

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Away from Home for the Holidays





Christmas on the USS California December 1921

Admiral Edward W. Eberle, USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet Speaking at a Christmas party for local children held on board USS California (BB-44), off San Pedro, California, in December 1921.

USS California (BB-44), off San Pedro, California, in December 1921

[Kathy in Alaska]

OK...my last chance to play Christmas tunes.

Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!
Music posted for your enjoyment. Thank you for serving our country.

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Mannheim Steamroller ~ Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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[Kathy in Alaska]

OK...my last chance to play Christmas tunes.

Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!
Music posted for your enjoyment. Thank you for serving our country.

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Mannheim Steamroller ~ Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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[Kathy in Alaska]

OK...my last chance to play Christmas tunes.

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The Chieftains ~ Once in Royal David's City

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Christmas 1969 on the USS Saratoga
Somewhere off the Coast of South Viet Nam
Bob Hope and Miss World performed for the sailors

[Kathy in Alaska]

OK...my last chance to play Christmas tunes.

Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!
Music posted for your enjoyment. Thank you for serving our country.

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Westminster Cathedral Choir ~ The Holly and The Ivy

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God Bless Our Troops
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God Bless Our Troops
Away from Home for the Holidays




USS Essex (CVS-9) on the way to Rotterdam, Holland
Photograph and caption were released by the ship's PIO under date of 29 December 1961.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.


Goede Kerst
("Good Christmas" to our Dutch allies)

"As the anti-submarine warfare carrier USS Essex (CVS-9) steamed toward a nine-day visit to Rotterdam, Holland, for the Christmas Holidays, crewmen formed the traditional Dutch equivalent of America's 'Merry Christmas' on the flight deck."

"Essex, the oldest carrier still in operation, is deployed in the Eastern Atlantic as Flagship of Task Group 83.3. Through her visits to English, Dutch and German ports, 'The Fighten'est Ship in the Fleet' is giving our allies a chance to get a first-hand look at an example of America's naval strength."

Destroyer in the middle background is USS Robinson (DD-562)

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U.S. Navy photo
by Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Joe Kane/released

SAN DIEGO December 10, 2012 Amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) displays its holiday lights at Naval Base San Diego.

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Santa (Lt. Jon Sunderland) directing aircraft on the USS Nimitz, 25 December 2011

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Away from Home for the Holidays


U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. David J. Overson, 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

Santa Claus gives a Christmas stocking to wounded warrior Spc. Joseph Beldon at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Dec. 19, 2012.

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Away from Home for the Holidays


US Navy Photo of the USS Coral Sea Christmas 1971

A McDonnell Douglas F-4B Phantom II of fighter squadron VF-111 Sundowners, Attack Carrier Air Wing Fifeteen (CVW-15), being launched from the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) on Christmas 1971 by a catapult officer dressed up as Santa Claus.

The Coral Sea was on a deployment to Vietnam from 12 November 1971 to 17 July 1972. The F-4B is armed with AIM-9D Sidewinder and AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air-missiles