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NH 46701-A USS NEW JERSEY (BB-16)

USS NEW JERSEY (BB-16)
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Title: USS NEW JERSEY (BB-16)
Caption: Ship's crew, at the Boston Navy Yard, December 1919. Left side of a panoramic photograph by E.A. Hodge, Cambridge Massachusetts. (Right side, see NH 46701-B) Among those present, as identified by owner. Row One(L-R): 1. Bandmaster, name unknown; 7. Chief Nelson, electrician; 12. Ensign H.F. Flick, athletic officer; 19. Lieutenant Commander H.L. Smith (MC); 20. Acting C.O., name unknown*; 25. Lieutenant Junior Grade(T) P.J. Sullivan. Row Two (L-R): no one identified. Row Three (L-R): 1. Bube Bugler. Row Four (L-R): 7 Simpson; 32. Ralph H. Wheeler, ship's bugler (blond hair, arms folded, no one behind him). Gun Deck: Chief Jimmy Leps (almost directly above C.O.). * Lieutenant Commander. Henry D. McGuire was C.O. of NEW JERSEY from 8 December 1919 until the ship was decommissioned (Naval History Division, 1967 note.)
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Catalog #: NH 46701-A
Copyright Owner: Naval History and Heritage Command
Original Creator: photograph by E.A. Hodge
After this Year: 1910
Before this Year: 1919
Original Medium: BW Photo
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