The Snapshots in Time Collection
U.S. Navy Sailor at Rest on Deck, China Station, 1930s
A U.S. Navy sailor pauses on the weather deck of a warship serving with the Asiatic Fleet in Chinese waters during the 1930s. Grease-stained hands suggest engineering duties aboard one of the small gunboats and destroyers that patrolled China's coast and rivers in the years before World War II. Project: 218183