Hatch Team #9 eating c-rations

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02803
Title: Hatch Team #9 eating c-rations
Description: Original caption: "Lunch Break - Members of Hatch Team #9, Seamen Charles C. Shearon and Robert J. Kinney, Jr., and Boatswain's Mate 2C Robert J. Ely, take mid-day, 30-minute lunch break topside on merchant vessel they are offloading. The break helps to split-up 12-hour work shift. Combat 'C-rations' is the menu for lunch." Three American Navy sailors sit together, either on a dock or on the deck of a ship. There is a box labelled "meal combat individual" behind them, and the sailors appear to be dividing up the rations inside the box. One holds an opened can and another holds a small box.
Date: 1966, May 19
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Operational rations (Military supplies); Sailors; United States. Navy; Shipyards
Location: South Vietnam
Coordinates: 10.8231; 106.6297
Size: 20 x 25 cm
Container: B145, F13
Format: black-and-white prints (photographs)
Collection Number: MS 363
Collection Title: Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator: United States. Navy
Collector: Keever, Beverly Deepe
Copyright Information: These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
Publisher: Archives & Special Collections
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