| Catalog date |
02/12/2007 |
| Category |
8: Communication Artifact |
| Classification |
U.S. Navy
Newspapers
|
| Collection |
USS Marblehead (several) Collection |
| Date |
May 25, 1940 |
| Abstract |
The newspaper of the USS Marblehead.
Dated May 25, 1940, Amoy, China
The Cover has a drawing of the USS Marblehead and, in pencil, a list of numbers from 87 to 1074.
Page 1)This page contains The Masthead, (a newspaper term for info on the publisher, editors etc.) it also contains a description of a new aircraft taken from the New York Herald Tribune, and a mention of the landing forces supplied by Marby in the past.
Page 2) This page contains an article of the new drydock being towed from New Orleans through the Panama Canal to Pearl Harbor, a new "Office of Shore Operations" proposed for the Navy and finally a joke.
Page 3)This page has information on new movies and movies coming soon the ship.
Page 4) This page contains the ship's gossip and two cartoons. |
| Home Location |
FV Box 18X13 Charlie Shelf#4 |
| Object ID |
2004-027-0227 |
| Object Name |
Newspaper |
| People |
Robinson, A. G., CDR (USN)
Shelley, Tully, CDR (USN)
Stever, E. M., LT(jg) (USN)
Farmer, W. A. |
| Search Terms |
USS Marblehead
Amoy, China |
| Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
| Subjects |
US Navy
Newspapers
|
| Title |
The Light |
| Year Range from |
1935 |
| Year range to |
1940 |
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