Open-House, 1945
Comments by Ari Phoutrides
Another picture from the Admiral's memorabilia.
This gives you some idea as
to the size of the
crowds that visited the ship during its three day open
house. The crew - excluding me, of course -
would seek out advantageous locations and watch the
attractive women come on board. It was a
harmless past time and a very natural reaction to not
having seen a woman for a good
eight months.