by superadmin | Jun 16, 2021 | #BOWFINandBEYOND, art, hawaii history, history, museum, naval history, navy, Sailor, tattoo
USS Alaska (CB-1) Signalmen taking a visual message on the signal bridge, circa February 1945. Signalman Third Class Teddy Chalupski is writing the message while SM3/c Floyd H. Scharp reads it with the telescope. Note Scharp’s Equator crossing tattoo. OffThe art...
by superadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | #BOWFINandBEYOND, bugs bunny day, history, War Bonds, wwii
Still frame of Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in Any Bonds Today? (1942), a Warner Bros. cartoon produced with the United States Treasury Department to promote the purchase of war bondsAt the time of WWII, American’s could not escape the global grasp of war...
by superadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | #BOWFINandBEYOND, distance learning, education, goats, history, navy, ships, submarine
“Billie’s Morning Bath.” Sailors wash their goat mascot on board a U.S. Navy battleship, circa 1907-1908. This view may have been taken during the Great White Fleet world cruise. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold (NH 101549)Sailing animals are...
by superadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | #BOWFINandBEYOND, distance learning, Fire prevetion, history, smokey bear, wwii
1989; Smokey Bear poster showing a half body image of Smokey pointing at the audience with one hand while holding a shovel in the other hand. Poster reads “Only You”. This work is maintained in the National Agricultural Library, in Beltsville, MD.“Remember...
by superadmin | Nov 10, 2020 | #BOWFINandBEYOND, history, pearl harbor, Veterans Day
Honoring All Who ServedVideo Credit: Created by Dori Whipple, Joint Munitions Command Rock Island Arsenal, IL; courtesy of DVIDSHUB.NETOn November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words:...
by superadmin | Sep 23, 2020 | #BOWFINandBEYOND, distance learning, submarine, Submarine History
This 19th-century diagram shows the side views of Turtle. In 1870, when Jules Verne wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the idea of a submarine was still a fantasy. While Verne was ahead of his time with the description of his vessel, he did base the idea of...
