On Christmas Eve in 1943, the USS North Carolina sat anchored off a tiny volcanic island in the South Pacific, where crewmen tried to make merry in shoebox bunks stacked four high, half a globe away ...
Crew aboard USS North Carolina staged a boisterous Christmas Eve 'smoker' in 1943. Chaplain Wuebbens raised funds and arranged Macy’s gifts and filmed messages. Sailors shared moments of home, then ...