Gunner posing with antiaircraft gun on USS DECATUR, circa 1942

black-and-white photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
circa 1942
emulsion on paper
overall: 3-1/2 x 2-1/2 in.

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."


2004.81.92

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