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WWII U.S. NAVY PEARL HARBOR PHOTO ALBUM – ERNEST F. NICHOLAS – PACIFIC WAR – GREAT PEARL HARBOR EPHEMERA!
Excellent WWII U.S. Navy photograph album belonging to Ernest F. Nicholas, AEM3/c, Service No. 8808582, who served at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The album features an attractive illustrated leather cover depicting a naval flying boat, eagle, and anchor with the lettering “Logalbum – U.S. Naval Air Station – Pearl Harbor.”
The album contains numerous photographs of Nicholas and fellow sailors, naval facilities, and wartime life in Hawaii, along with Hawaiian scenery, local entertainers, and colorful postcards. Particularly interesting are photographs depicting the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and its aftermath, including burning and damaged battleships, salvage operations, destroyed aircraft, and naval installations. Additional wartime images show amphibious landings, naval combat, antiaircraft fire, and military aircraft. Includes a photograph of the December 7, 1941, Honolulu Star-Bulletin newspaper announcing the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Accompanying the photographs are numerous original wartime souvenirs and documents, including 1944 Pearl Harbor Thanksgiving and Christmas menus, naval theatre tickets, laundry tags, personal correspondence, a September 1945 Naval Air Station electricity course certificate, Armed Forces Institute examination results, transportation tickets, and Lockheed Aircraft Corporation material. Also includes aviation-related clippings featuring the P-38 Lightning and American fighter ace Richard I. Bong.
