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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 69416

Lieutenant Commander Sherlock Hibbs, USNR
(behind Santa's microphone)
and
Lieutenant Commander Thomas S. Gates, Jr., USNR (to right of microphone)

Make merry with toy musical instruments during a Christmas Eve party on board USS Makin Island (CVE-93), 24 December 1944, while the ship was at Manus, Admiralty Islands.
Looking on, second from right, is Rear Admiral Calvin T. Durgin, USN.

Collection of Vice Admiral Calvin T. Durgin. Donated by his daughter, Mrs. Phyllis Durgin Sherrill, 1969.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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12 February 2003