The Snapshots in Time Collection
Sailors Watch a Shipboard Boxing Match Aboard a U.S. Navy Vessel, China Station, Pre-WWII
Sailors aboard a U.S. Navy warship on the China Station gather to watch a shipboard boxing match, a popular morale-boosting pastime during long deployments in the 1920s and 1930s. Photographs like this document the everyday life and recreation of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the years before World War II. Project: 218181