File:Bob feller ww2.jpg

hoto #: NH 102847

Chief Specialist Robert William ("Bob") Feller

By a 40mm quadruple anti-aircraft gun mount, probably on board USS Alabama (BB-60) in late 1942 or early 1943. The original caption (released 5 March 1943) reads: "GUN CAPTAIN FELLER -- Bob Feller, one of the finest baseball pitchers of the era, is all set to do a different kind of pitching these days. As a Chief Specialist, he is the captain of a 40mm gun crew aboard one of Uncle Sam's new battleships. The former American Leaguer joined the U.S. Navy as a physical education instructor and later applied for Gunnery School. Subsequently he was assigned to sea duty and here he is -- grin and all -- beside his guns on a cold winter day."

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

source: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-f/r-feller.htm

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