Mary Nimitz launches destroyer Part 1

Description

1) MHS Mary Nimitz and school friends on launching platform. 2) CU Mary Nimitz poses with launching bottle with father, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. 3) CU Admiral Nimitz. 4) CU-Pan Sleeve braid to face of Admiral Nimitz. 5) MS Mary Nimitz christens USS Buck, ship slides down ways into water. 6) MS Ship dead in water, workers aboard. 7) CU Crowd gathers around Mary Nimitz. 8) MS Mary Nimitz takes bow and shakes hands with her father. 9) SHS Mary Nimitz shakes hands with her father, spectators background, photographers foreground. 10) MS Workers aboard USS Buck wave to spectators on dock.

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities