{"product_id":"original-u-s-pre-wwii-uss-arizona-photo-album-shipboard-pictures-and-personal-pictures-featuring-vice-admiral-joel-r-p-pringle","title":"Original U.S. Pre-WWII USS Arizona Photo Album - Shipboard Pictures and Personal Pictures - Featuring Vice Admiral Joel R. P. Pringle","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal Item: One-of-a-kind. This is a photo album of a sailor's service in the USN just before World War Two aboard the U.S.S. Arizona. The cover of the album features a full color printed\/painted leather image depicting the USS Arizona Battleship which it reads \"Photographs\" above and U.S.S. Arizona below. Inside are around 15 original photographs, including multiple images aboard the USS Arizona. There are photos of family, Navy life aboard ship, and much more. The album is offered in very nice overall condition. Almost all pages with pictures have original descriptions or names written beneath the pictures. The first picture is a pair of Officers in their dress whites standing topside on the Arizona. The officers are Captain Freeman and Commander C.L. Best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe most interesting discovery made about that first photograph, is that it appears to be taken the very same day as the famous photograph of President Herbert Hoover sitting in a wicker chair aboard the USS Arizona, and he happens to be sitting right beside Captain Freeman in this very photograph featured in the album!\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn March, 1931, Herbert Hoover decided to take a Caribbean cruise. He had taken only one brief vacation during the first two years of his Presidency, and badly needed some rest. The battleship Arizona had just finished a two year overhaul and was scheduled to make a “shakedown” cruise off the east coast, so the President decided to go along for the ride.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe second page features another amazing personal photograph. This picture was taken of Vice Admiral Joel Roberts Poinsett Pringle, a distinguished officer of the United States Navy, serving from 1894 to 1932. For his service during World War I, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility as commanding officer, Melville and Chief of Staff, Destroyer Flotillas, European Waters.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis picture features a stern looking Admiral Pringle, sword in hand with a formation of U.S. Sailors in rows behind him. They appear to be conducting a gear and uniform inspection and if you look closely, you can see the words USS ARIZONA on the ship tally of the overturned dress blues cover laying with other uniform items. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese are all wonderful pictures taken approximately 10 years before that “Day of Infamy” where the USS Arizona met its fateful end to her service along with the lives of over 1,000 men. Comes ready to display in your collections. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUSS Arizona (BB-39)\u003c\/strong\u003e was the second and last of the Pennsylvania class of \"super-dreadnought\" battleships built for the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state's recent admission into the union and commissioned in 1916, the ship remained stateside during World War I. Shortly after the end of the war, Arizona was one of a number of American ships that briefly escorted President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference. The ship was sent to Turkey in 1919 at the beginning of the Greco-Turkish War to represent American interests for several months. Several years later, she was transferred to the Pacific Fleet and remained there for the rest of her career.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAside from a comprehensive modernization in 1929–1931, Arizona was regularly used for training exercises between the wars, including the annual Fleet Problems (training exercises). When an earthquake struck Long Beach, California, on 10 March 1933, Arizona's crew provided aid to the survivors. In July 1934, the ship was featured in a James Cagney film, Here Comes the Navy, about the romantic troubles of a sailor. In April 1940, she and the rest of the Pacific Fleet were transferred from California to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as a deterrent to Japanese imperialism.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn 7 December 1941, Arizona was hit by Japanese torpedo bombers that dropped armor-piercing bombs during the attack on Pearl Harbor. After one of their bombs detonated in a magazine, she exploded violently and sank, with the loss of 1,177 officers and crewmen. Unlike many of the other ships sunk or damaged that day, Arizona was irreparably damaged by the force of the magazine explosion, though the Navy removed parts of the ship for reuse. The wreck still lies at the bottom of Pearl Harbor beneath the USS Arizona Memorial. Dedicated on 30 May 1962 to all those who died during the attack, the memorial straddles but does not touch the ship's hull.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Original Items","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39815237238853,"sku":"ONACST2247","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1524\/1342\/products\/ONACT2247__01.jpg?v=1644952885","url":"https:\/\/www.ima-usa.com\/products\/original-u-s-pre-wwii-uss-arizona-photo-album-shipboard-pictures-and-personal-pictures-featuring-vice-admiral-joel-r-p-pringle","provider":"International Military Antiques","version":"1.0","type":"link"}