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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