This typed Christmas message from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressed to the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces, was preserved among the wartime papers of USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80). Dated to December 1944 - the 'fourth Christmas of the war' - the message reflects the tradition of presidential holiday greetings distributed to sailors and airmen serving far from home, offering encouragement as American forces pressed toward victory in the Pacific and Europe. Project: 218459