Military Personnel Touring Naval Vessel, 1950s

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Military Personnel Touring Naval Vessel, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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A man in dress uniform and a woman in a blue suit stand on the deck of a naval ship, gazing up at a large gun turret mounted above them. The gun is the kind of thing that was built to solve a specific problem in 1943, and by 1950 was already becoming obsolete, though the Navy was not yet ready to admit this. The couple has dressed formally for the occasion because touring a warship was still an official event, something that required a suit and careful posture, not something you did in shorts after buying a ticket. The woman holds a purse in both hands, a habit born from the assumption that good behavior in public spaces required visible restraint. Behind them, sailors in work clothes move about their actual job, which was to keep the gun turret operational for a war that was no longer quite the one anyone had been trained for. The deck is clean enough that someone has swept it specifically for visitors.

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