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till you're back from over there. Well, Gang, this is Ken Carpenter, unwrapping the biggest Christmas package of the day.

Command Performance, your present from Armed Forces Radio Service, Los Angeles, USA.

This year, we wanted to make this a very realistic Christmas.

Of course, we couldn't bring you any snow, we couldn't bring you a hunk of the North Pole,

or Santa Claus's igloo, but we are bringing you a man who has an icicle

for a nose, and? This is Bob Christmas Command Hope telling all you occupation troops

that are wearing iron lids how are you going to get enough points to come back when it's

Crosby who keeps having kids. Of course even in the occupation troops are issuing passes to certain fellows for Christmas

issuing passes to certain fellows for Christmas.

That's an army expression meaning,

meany, mey, miney, there ain't no mole.

But back home we're having our first peacetime Christmas in four years and you should see the mobs at the stores.

I went up to one woman and I said, isn't a wonderful to do Christmas shopping now that all

of fighting is stopped?

But she didn't answer me, how can you talk with all your teeth knocked out?

I went out to do a little shopping myself and you should have seen

the mobs of people. The streets were so crowded, my suspenders broke and I walked six blocks

before my pants fell down. inside the store that was even worse

boy was at crowded and never saw so many shopping bags and there were some pretty girls too.

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