TAI SING LOO Orig Photo PEARL HARBOR NAVY MESS HALL Christmas Dinner 1943 WWII

Description

This is one of many great vintage & antique items I'm currently listing from various estates. Please take a look at my other merchandise at your leisure.
You are bidding on:
Navy Sailors in the Mess Hall
at the
Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor
Original Photographic Print
by
Tai Sing Loo
Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii
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Christmas 1943
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Photo shows group of sailors in a mess hall at the Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor. Calendar on wall reads 'December' and by the look of things - this might be Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. The men are drinking Lucky Lager beer. The men pictured are (at least in part) workers, cooks and butchers from the Commissary.
2nd image
is a close-up and shows the butcher who saved these photos I'm listing. He's the smiling fella at the far head of the table. His name is Robert Greenberg. Serial 878-61-78.
This
Tai Sing Loo
photo was saved by a sailor who worked as a butcher at the Commissary in the Navy Yard at Pearl Harbor. He served in the Navy from June '43 to Nov '45. I am also listing other photos by Tai Sing Loo including photos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, of
Breakers
Navy Beach Club on Waikiki, and of the Commissary where this sailor worked as cook and butcher.
Tai Sing Loo
(1886-1971) was a photographer of Pearl Harbor and many sporting events in Hawaii. From 1909 to 1918, he worked with the Gurrey studio. From 1919 until his retirement in 1949, he served as an official Navy photographer. In that capacity, he photographed the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and the battleships, and recorded VIP visits, funerals and recreational events. He also photographed for the Inter-Island Steamship Company and was an accomplished landscape photographer. Some of his well-known photographs include many of Duke Kahanamoku, Pearl Harbor before and after the bombing, celebrities and presidential visits to Hawaii. Loo also helped to break the Japanese Codes that were put into false newspaper advertisements that detailed when the attack would occur and the formations of the planes for the attack.
Photo Measures Approx 5 x 7 Inches.
In Very Good Vintage Condition: See Tear At Bottom.
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