Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood and staff board the Baltimore preparing to take command of the Blue Feet. The Admiral and others are in salute, while the sailors stand at attention.
Admiral William V. Pratt arrives at the train station from Washington to accompany the battle fleet for the war games in Panama. Photograph appears with the article "FLEET TO PAUSE HERE NEXT YEAR: Entire Naval Force Will Arrive in April, 1932 Visit to Be Climax of Great War Game in Pacific Admiral Pratt Describes Plans for Maneuvers," Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 1931: A1.
Donald Wills Douglas, aircraft industrialist and founder of Douglas Aircraft Company, speaks at the podium at the City Hall steps on the 200 North Spring Street entrance. Patriotic decor frame the surrounding stage. Also in view, the column and arches which make up the facade to the Spring Street entrance of City Hall. Douglas spoke on the needed focus of naval aircraft technology. The event celebrated the importance of American naval forces on Navy Day, October 27th, a day which commemorated the establishment of the American Navy in 1775. (Navy Day is no longer observed as it was absorbed into Armed Forces Day.) The 2000 spectators listened not only to notable speeches extolling the navy at City Hall, but also witnessed a band concert and the aerial feats of naval airplanes flying overhead. Commemorations also occured in Los Angeles Harbor, Long Beach Naval Reserve Airport, and elsewhere in the Southland.
Photograph taken aboard an unidentified battleship visited by H. H. West and others just off-shore in Santa Monica. A man wearing a hat and with a hand in his pocket peeks into the frame from the left. Two large gun turrets are behind him and sit at the center of the photograph. To either side of that, there are two more, smaller, turrets. Atop the 2 large turrets at center, there is the ship's bridge. Visitors stand at a railing on top of the bridge amidst large guns that face outward to the right and left. On the deck, a uniformed naval serviceman approaches the large gun turrets from the left. Two women in dresses stand to the right of the large turrets. On the far right, a lifeboat hangs off the side of the ship.
Captain David C. Morrison talking on his radio on the beach during the Army-Navy Maneuvers that took place off the coast of Southern California at the end of 1946. The goal of the war games was to practice two maneuvers: Operation Mountain Goat, an amphibious landing designed to dislodge "enemy" troops, and Operation Oilskin, a landing to cut off "enemy" communications. The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps aircrafts participated in the exercise.
Captain William O. Spears (left) sits behind a desk. He is wearing a pin-striped suit jacket and has both arms resting on the desk in front of him. Some sheets of paper lay on the desk in front of him. To his left, Commander Herbert H. Jones, wearing naval uniform, stands over him.
Portrait photograph of Captain William O. Spears. He is seated at a desk, photo taken from 3/4 angle. He has his arms laid on the desk, and a few sheets of papers lying on the desk in front of him. He is looking at the camera. He wears a pin striped suit jacket.