The Five Days of an Old Shanghai Christmas – #4 – Merry Christmas to you all from the Yangtze Patrol

The USS Guam joined the United States Pacific fleet only in 1943 but saw service in operations off Okinawa before joining the United States Yangtze Patrol, more commonly known as the “YangPat”. USS Guam was stationed at Shanghai for a time and handily commissioned the grewat White Russian cartoonist Sapajou (at that time looking himself for a way out of China) to draw their Christmas Card – he did and, as you can see, it outlines the patrol route up the Yangtze of the Guam (below) and other YangPat vessels.