Title
Time for a Beer
Description
A black and white photograph of PhoM 3/c Bill Tucker (left) kneeling with five other Yorktown sailors: Swigart, Phillips, Allison, Peebles, and Smith. The Tucker has a Coke while the rest of the group enjoys a beer on the beach on Mog Mog (Ulithi). 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 "L to R Me, Swigart, Phillips, Allison, Peebles, Smith, Coke for me! "
The caption accompanying the photo reads "L to R Me, Swigart, Phillips, Allison, Peebles, Smith, Coke for me! "
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 Warren Tucker Collection.
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 Warren Tucker Collection.
Accession #
2024.3
