Photo #: NH 72239
Sheet Music of the "Stars & Stripes Forever"
(page 2)
Manuscript piano copy of an original draft of John Philip Sousa's
march, recovered from USS California (BB-44) while she
was being salvaged at Pearl Harbor in 1942.
This score had been obtained by Mr. L.B. Luchenbach from Harold
Heard, a former trombonist with the Sousa band. Both were aboard
California when she was sunk as a result of the 7 December
1941 Japanese air raid. Luchenbach got off the ship, but the
music didn't. When the ship was raised, he went aboard and recovered
it.
Donation of Mr. L.B. Luchenbach, 1971.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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