Gunner posing with antiaircraft gun on USS DECATUR, circa 1942

black-and-white photograph

Photograph; black-and-white photograph of gunner posing with an antiaircraft gun on the USS DECATUR (built 1921), circa 1942; sailor is perched below gun with hands on controls; stamped on back "417"; from Henry Strauss transcript in Sound Archives: "That's a three inch 23 on the after end of the DECATUR. That's her antiaircraft equipment."