A page from a 1939 travel scrapbook, believed to belong to a sailor aboard the light cruiser USS Trenton, recording visits to Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, and a war memorial in Hyde Park, London. Two American sailors in dress whites are seen standing solemnly at a memorial flanked by carved sentinel figures, a quiet gesture of remembrance amid a day of sightseeing. Captured in the final peaceful summer before the Second World War, the page reflects both the tourism and the transatlantic camaraderie that characterized U.S. Navy port calls to Britain in the interwar years. Project: 218720