USS Philadelphia - CL-41

Thanksgiving Dinner 1944: A Newswriter visited the ship. That's my Dad Frank Paukstis 2nd from the right.

Ship's Dance - October 29, 1945
Doc Rountree confirmed my mother's story that the chaplain stopped women on the street and invited them to the dance.
He matched up these "blind dates himself. Another photo is at http://www.brigs.us/Phila/dance.htm