Photo #: NH 69018
USS Aaron Ward (Destroyer # 132)
An officer and two sailors stand watch over the flag-draped caskets of Army Lieutenants Cecil H. Connolly and Waterhouse Weiser, on board the destroyer in November 1919.
The two Army fliers were killed when their plane crashed while searching for other lost aviators in Mexico.
Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco,
California, 1969.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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