Video: Bob Hope's last show in Vietnam (8:58)
(Sunday, December 24, 1972, Christmas Eve; during Operation Linebacker II, part of the Vietnam War) — Comedian Bob Hope, who has been visiting troops in Vietnam at Christmas since 1965 and entertaining American servicemen elsewhere overseas for 31 years, has performed his last show in Vietnam.
“This trip to Vietnam is my last,” he told troops attended a show today at the Tan Son Nhut airbase outside Saigon.
Video: Christmas bombing halt (9:14)
(Sunday, December 24, 1972, Christmas Eve; during Operation Linebacker II, part of the Vietnam War) — U.S. ‘Christmas Bombings’ of North Vietnam was temporarily halted today for 36 hours starting at 8:00 a.m. local time, although Radio Hanoi reported that raids had continued as late as 7:30 p.m. Continue reading ‘Christmas Bombings’ halted for holiday 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: Dec. 24, 1942 (at 41:04)
(Thursday, December 24, 1942, Christmas Eve; during the Battle of Stalingrad during Eastern Front of World War II) — In Nazi Germany today, the radio broadcast a “live message” from Stalingrad, but it was a fake. Broadcasts from Stalingrad had stopped a week before. Continue reading German radio broadcasts fake ‘live message’ from Stalingrad 70 years ago today (1942)
