"Somewhere in England one of the hottest bands in the European Theater of Operations belongs to a Special United States Naval Construction Battalion. The band leader and trumpeter is Coxswain Thomas Lindsey and the drummer is S1c. Edward A. Grant." |
"Sailors in their bunkroom aboard the U.S.S. Ticonderoga on eve of the Battle of Manila, PI. Thomas L. Crenshaw (STM1/c) looks at a picture of his three children, while a bunkmate writes a letter home." |
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"Navy baseball team--Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides." |
"Negro troops, moving over the Atlantic on a Coast Guard-manned troop transport, sprawl on a hatch to 'bat the breeze' and talk of home. They are on their way to the fighting lines in Europe." |
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