Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 24, 1968
December 23, 1968
December 25, 1968
Transcript:
The World War I Flying Ace walks and thinks, "It's Christmas Eve, and The World War I Flying Ace is down behind enemy lines . ."<BR><BR> The World War I Flying Ace thinks, "Back home everyone is opening presents and having a good time . . . Curse you, Red Baron!"<BR><BR> The World War I Flying Ace continues to walk. He thinks, "It's all his fault . . . But I'll get even with him . . ."<BR><BR> Snoopy walks and thinks, "Next year I won't send him a Christmas card!"<BR><BR>
The US entered WW1 on April 4, 1917 and Snoopy imagines himself to be a US pilot. So this must be Christmas 1917. Sorry, Snoopy, but you won’t be able to send him a Christmas card next year, the Red Baron (the name was actually coined post-war in a British book) won’t survive that long. He died on April 21st, 1918, about two weeks before his 26th birthday. But Snoopy could do us all a favour and shoot down Hermann Göring, who became commander of the Flying Circus, after the man who took over after Richthofen died also died in a plane crash.