USS BAILEY at Dutch Harbor, Various Crew (My Uncle, Coy Vandiver S1c, is in second row center with arrow)
Note the freedom to have cigars, Captain John C. Atkeson enjoyed the cigar and extended this freedom to his crew along with the freedom to grow beards.
BAILEY spent six months in the most inhospitable climate of the global war from 28 September 1942 until April 1943.

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NAVY DEPARTMENT HISTORY OF THE USS BAILEY DD-492
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POLYWOGS AND SHELLBACKS - CROSSING THE LINE, OCTOBER 19, 1943
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