Photo #: NH 75768
USS Bruce (DD-329)
Officers on the ship's open bridge, during engineering, gunnery
and torpedo exercises in early 1921.
Those present are (from left to right):
Commander Henry C. Gearing, Jr., Commanding Officer, USS Bruce;
Captain William V. Pratt, Commander, Destroyer Force, Pacific
Fleet;
Lieutenant Homer L. Grosskopf, Executive Officer, USS Bruce;
and
Captain Franck Taylor Evans, Chief of Staff, Destroyer Force,
Pacific Fleet.
Note pelorus at right and cigarettes and pipes in use.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Admiral
William V. Pratt.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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