This snapshot from a personal photo album captures a moment of off-duty recreation: a group of servicemen at a skeet range overlooking the Pacific coast near Santa Barbara, California. The wooden skeet house with its clay-target throwing arm and posted safety rules reflects the popularity of trap and skeet shooting as recreation for military personnel during the WWII era, when many bases along the California coast offered such facilities for training and leisure alike. The handwritten caption identifies the location and a name, likely a friend or fellow serviceman photographed in the moment. Project: 218187