Best wishes to you and your family!
Here’s the menu from Thanksgiving Day, 1944 at the Fleet Service Schools in Norfolk.
The menu is a part of the collection at the Naval History and Heritage Command.
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A Vintage Thanksgiving
As you’re getting prepped for all of the food, family and fun tomorrow, here’s a vintage-tidbit from Thanksgiving 1943. It comes from the Navy History and Heritage Command courtesy the U.S. Naval Repair Base in San Diego.
Turkey Day Preview
Getting ready for Thursday? How about this tidbit from the Navy History and Heritage Command from Thanksgiving 1944 at the Amphibious Training Center in San Francisco?
New York, c. 1940
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade is in a few days, so we thought a color photograph of New York City from during the war seemed appropriate.
The photograph comes from the National Archives.
Gun Inspection
WAVE Mary P. Waters and Lt. William J. Sweeney check guns and other ordinance aboard ships at Bethlehem-Hingham, Massachusetts.
The November 1944 photograph comes from the National Archives
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The Dictaphone
WAVE Elane Hoganson, a yeoman 2nd class, types a letter from a dictaphone record. The dictaphone used a wax cylinder to record voices – kind of an early precursor to tape recorders or MP3 recording devices.
The photograph comes from the National Archives.
The Exhibit
The Navy sets up for the Sixth War Loan Drive exhibition in Chicago. The exhibit would open 70 years ago this month, November 17, 1944.
The photograph comes from the National Archives.
The Hospital Corps
A recruitment brochure for the WAVES Hospital Corps, c. June 1945.
Celestial Navigation
WAVE Ensign Abigail Donohue demonstrates the Link Celestial Navigation Training device at NAS Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
The photograph comes from the National Archives.
Assembly and Repair
WAVE Marjorie May Judd works in the instrument overhaul division of the Assembly and Repair Department of NAS Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
The photograph comes from the National Archives.
Hinges of History 