The Snapshots in Time Collection
U.S. Navy Sailors Watching a Shipboard Boxing Match, China Station, 1930s
Sailors of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet crowd a ship's boom to watch an impromptu boxing match during a deployment to China in the 1930s. Scenes of shipboard recreation like this were a regular feature of life aboard U.S. Navy vessels stationed on the pre-war 'China Station.' Project: 218181