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Photo #: NH 68057

James Roosevelt
(center),
son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Receives some of the punishment due a "Polywog" at the hands of "Shellbacks", during Neptune Ceremonies on board USS Indianapolis (CA-35), as she crosses the Equator in late November 1936.
Indianapolis was then carrying the President and his party on a "Good Neighbor" cruise to South America.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, collection of Rear Admiral Paul H. Bastedo, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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31 December 1998