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Music with Oil - From the Essex to Its Destroyer Escort

The ships band plays while resupply operations are in process
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Description: Painting, Watercolor on Paper; By J Gordon Carr; 1965; Unframed Dimensions 23H X 31W
Accession #: 88-161-FX
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Refueling on USS Essex during an exercise that happended between hurricanes Doria and Ethel in 1965.  Besides sending over oil, music was provided as well.

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