The Five Days of an Old Shanghai Christmas – #3 – 1946: Christmas Aboard USS Curtis for a Hundred Shanghai Orphans

December 1946 – Shanghai’s second free Christmas since the end of the Japanese occupation. But still shortages are acute, civil war raging, inflation awful and so many displaced persons to find new homes for. The USS Curtis (below) was in town and the crew decided to hold a Christmas party inviting a hundred Chinese and Russian orphan kids aboard for what must have been a seriously memorable Christmas feast…