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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 83061

USS West Virginia (BB-48)


Officers relaxing in their mess aboard the battleship on 7 May 1942, while she was under salvage at Pearl Harbor.
Note Coca-Cola bottles on table, M1903 rifles in racks on the bulkhead at left and poster attached there. The poster shows a careless worker receiving a medal from a Japanese officer, and the inscription: "For distinguished service to the Axis ... For Loafing. He slept on the job ... He waited for his helper ... He waited for his material ... He did not keep his group busy ... He started late ... He quit early ... No good American is willingly idle, now which side are you on?".

Collection of Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin, USN (Retired).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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30 November 2000