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What the Navy is doing : heroes of the deep / W.A. Nightingale

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Title	What the Navy is doing : heroes of the deep / W.A. Nightingale
Publisher	New York : Press of U.S. Navy Recruiting Bureau, [1917-1918]
Physical Description	1 print : color ; 35 x 43 cm
Summary	Photograph depicting sailors and their captain on a damaged ship. Poster encourages read to enlist in the Navy.
Notes	Title from item.; "In this war the Armed Guard, all enlisted men, are making the Epic of the Navy. For two hours and a half the armed guard of the S.S. _______ fought the Hun, compelling the U-boat to submerge damaged. Enemy fired two hundred rounds of shrapnel, one shot exploded in the armed guard's mess room, wrecking it completely, others hitting the ship with minor damage. Struck by shrapnel, but giving as they took, our men won out and kept their heads. Here is the youthful fiber of the Navy, kids almost alongside of their elders, but now veterans and according to their commander, "behaving cooly throughout the engagement, doing their duty."; "Enlist in the Navy"; "Photograph by W.A. Nightingale, U.S.N."
LC Subject Headings	United States. Navy. United States. Navy. Armed Guard. World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations. World War, 1914-1918--Recruiting, enlistment, etc. Submarine warfare. Naval tactics.
Time Period	World War I (1914-1918)
Call #	PRINT 02033
Item #	329084
OCLC #	919501880

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