Title
Dress Parade
Description
A black and white photograph of three Japanese women walking down the street in Tokyo. Two of them are in traditional garb while the third is in modern western clothing. The photo is from an album containing 53 photographs taken by Warren Tucker and his friends during the USS Yorktown (CV-10) crew liberty in Tokyo, Japan in September of 1945.
The caption accompanying the photo reads " You might call this a dress parade if you like. Shoes like the girl on the right is wearing were seldom seen. After all who wants shoes like that if you had to take them off every time you enter the house?."
The caption accompanying the photo reads " You might call this a dress parade if you like. Shoes like the girl on the right is wearing were seldom seen. After all who wants shoes like that if you had to take them off every time you enter the house?."
Collection
Warren Tucker Collection
Context
Warren "Bill" Tucker was a Photographers Mate in the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-10) during World War II.
Transferred aboard the USS Yorktown in 1944 with no photography experience, Seaman Tucker was assigned to the photo lab and found he had a talent for the work. Tucker received his promotion to Photographers Mate 3/c in 1945 with most of his work documenting the final days of World War II and the beginnings of Occupied Japan.
From the Collection of Warren Tucker.
Transferred aboard the USS Yorktown in 1944 with no photography experience, Seaman Tucker was assigned to the photo lab and found he had a talent for the work. Tucker received his promotion to Photographers Mate 3/c in 1945 with most of his work documenting the final days of World War II and the beginnings of Occupied Japan.
From the Collection of Warren Tucker.
Accession #
2024.3
