Beer Party

Beer party for the crew of the USS Arthur Middleton--probably Manus Island.

After seeing Wayne's recent pictures, I thought I would post this one. I really like all the characters in the image. The officer in the front is my grandfather (on his 3rd war!)

This image is scanned and cropped from a section of a 3x4 contact print (I assume it was a contact print). I am amazed by the detail. You can't quite make out the writing on the lens on that old speed graphic, but I am pretty sure it says "Graphlex". You can tell that there are individual links on my grandfather's ID bracelet. Try and do that with a 300 DPI print...Especially 60 years later.

Matt

P.s. the careful eye might notice that I have borrowed "Sparks", the photographer.