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Photo #: 80-G-448046

USS Ajax (AR-6)


Lieutenant Commander Kyusup Chung, Republic of Korea Navy, a passenger aboard Ajax, conducts a course in spoken Japanese for U.S. officers and men, while the repair ship was en route to Japan for her second Korean War deployment, September 1952.
Japanese words are written on the blackboard in both "Romanji" and "Katakana".
Note loudspeaker and basketball net mounted on the next deck up.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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7 December 1999