“THAT OLD NAVY SCRAP BOOK OF MINE; IT’S CRAMMED FULL OF PICTURES AND HAPPENINGS OLD, OF THE DAYS THAT ARE NOW LEFT BEHIND.” An extensive sailor’s archive (a huge scrapbook, hundreds of photographs, and five oral history tapes) documenting his pre-WWII service on the flagship of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet
U.S.S. Pittsburgh at Hawaii, Guam, Philippines, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Borneo, Siam, Singapore, Java, Ceylon, etc: 1929-1931. Album. This archive consists of an 8” x 14” 300-page scrapbook, filled with articles, clippings, photographs, cartoons, newsletters, assorted ephemera. Hood used 86 pages in the rear of the album to keep a...... More