Fred Weeks WWII Photographs

Name/Title

Fred Weeks WWII Photographs

Entry/Object ID

2023.644.73

Description

Black and white snapshot from the photograph collection of Frederick Eugene Weeks (pictured on the left). Handwritten on back: "ANOTHER SCENE ON THE CONNING TOWER! Williams S 1/C (SM), MYSELF - I WAS TOO LAZY TO USE THE FLAGS." (S 1/C (SM) = Seaman, 1st Class, Signalman). Weeks was born in Stonington on March 16, 1922 and served with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater during WWII.