One-of-a-kind World War II photo album scrapbook of an American sailor stationed in the Pacific Theater, measuring 13.25 x 10.5, containing over 350 original candid glossy photographs, which range in size from 1.5 x 2 to 6.5 x 4.5. The fascinating images show American sailors in locations foreign and domestic, including Hawaii (complete with palm trees and hula dancers), Philadelphia, Panama, Japan, Singapore, on the deck of their ship, entertaining local girls, and more. A few of the photographs, taken aboard the USS Quincy, show President Franklin D. Roosevelt meeting with King Ibn Saud following the Yalta Conference; another depicts Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia arriving on the ship.
Also includes two additional original glossy photographs of the USS Uhlmann coated in its remarkable geometric 'dazzle camouflage' paint scheme: a 10 x 8 photo of the the Fletcher-class destroyer at Hunters Point on August 10, 1944, marked "Official Photograph / Not to be released for publication…Restricted"; and a 6.5 x 4.5 photo of the ship docked with its crew on the deck. The Uhlmann had collided with the USS Benham while conducting training exercises in Hawaiian waters, tearing a huge hole in the hull below the water line; the ship had to be towed to the shipyard in San Francisco for repair. Additionally includes a folder containing a nine-page timeline typescript listing the sailor's travels and actions from 1940-1946, with examples of standard forms and documents clipped to the opposite side. In overall very good to fine condition, with many of the photographs affixed by their corners with toned tape, and some loose or missing.
