Gunners mate Diggins on POLLUX

black-and-white photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
circa 1942
emulsion on paper
overall: 1-7/8 x 1-3/8 in.

Photograph; black-and-white photograph of gunners mate and signalman Diggins holding a Tommy gun on board POLLUX (built 1939), circa 1942; Diggins, shirtless with hat poses with Tommy gun; handwritten on back "DIGGINS, OUR NOTORIOUS/ SIGNALMAN FROM/ BKLYN. NOTE UNIFORM/ OF DAY."


2004.81.101

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