Title
Sailors with Japanese Official
Description
A black and white photograph of a two USS Yorktown sailors, Photographers Mate Jim Tucking and Seaman Melvin Wamble. They stand next to a uniformed Japanese man with the Tokyo sub base crane in the background. 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 "The shops and houses near the water-front were small and dirty and those white uniforms shined like silver."
The caption accompanying the photo reads "The shops and houses near the water-front were small and dirty and those white uniforms shined like silver."
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
