Keywords: 80-G-464078 USS Aquila (AK-47). Seamen at their battle stations, during a drill while their ship was en route to Iceland with a North Atlantic convoy, December 1941. Men are dressed in cold weather clothing, with life jackets. Cleaver held by man at left is to cut away liferafts when abandoning ship. Men are L-R: George Mela, Willis Hudson, and Leon Lance. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/05/09). 80-G-464078 USS Aquila (AK-47). Seamen at their battle stations, during a drill while their ship was en route to Iceland with a North Atlantic convoy, December 1941. Men are dressed in cold weather clothing, with life jackets. Cleaver held by man at left is to cut away liferafts when abandoning ship. Men are L-R: George Mela, Willis Hudson, and Leon Lance. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/05/09). |