Sunday, February 8, 2015

Sailors on Deck

A few pictures of Sailors on the ship.

I'm guessing this picture goes with the previous alligator on the hook one


All these boys look so young, which they were I'm sure!


This was a pretty light picture


This one was almost faded away


Lots of marks on this one, but it's still really fun!




Shoe Box of Sailors

Last summer my mom and I went to visit her uncle. While were were there he brought out a box of old pictures that had belonged to his father, my mom's maternal grandfather. Somehow I came home with all his pictures from the Navy. He served in the Navy in the 20's (I'll get a more accurate date soon) and was on the USS Arizona. Most of the pictures are really faded so I am going to work on scanning them and trying to fix them up a bit. None of the pictures have names on them. A few have some details on the actual pictures. I'm sure there are people out there that would love to see these so I thought I'd share!

If you know anyone or anything about these pictures please feel free to share with me. I'd love to add some details to them.

Here's what I got done tonight.

USS Arizona in the Panama Canal Miraflores Locks June 1927


cleaning the deck


This is made as a post card


Another post card


 Up to no good?


This is fun, it says "After a Strenuous "48" hr liberty"


Looks like they caught a bit more than they planned! Alligator?


Lots more to come!