Sailors posing on SC 668

black-and-white photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
SOLOMON ISLANDS
circa 1943
emulsion on paper
overall: 4 x 5 in.

Photograph; black-and-white photograph of crewmen posing on the SC 668 (built 1942), circa 1943; three sailors on deck in shorts, one wearing a helmet, one sailor on cabin top, antiaircraft guns visible on left and right; from Henry Strauss transcript in Sound Archives: "Ah, SC 668. The middle of the three people standing was the Yeoman. The one with the white helmet on the left was the machinist mate and I can't remember their names."


2004.81.103

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