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Loved ones back home could acquaint themselves with the naval fleet upon which cadets might find themselves stationed.

Please have a safe and festive holiday, everyone, and take a moment to reflect on how good most of us have it - and why. It's no accident. America On Guard - small format children's book on the armed services, published by Rand McNally, 1941. Cover illustration by Herbert Rudeen.

U.S. Battleships At War - vintage small-format children's book, published by Rand McNally, Chicago, 1942. Cover art by Herbert Rudeen.

The bearer of this card witnessed the detonations of only the fourth and fifth atomic bombs in history at the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, per his participation in Operation Crossroads, in July of 1946. The first detonation of a nuclear device was the Trinity test of July 16, 1945, followed less than a month later by the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The U.S.S. Haven was a hospital ship of the U.S. Navy and was the lead ship for medical experiments in the Atoll during the course of the atomic tests.

Vintage postcard folder depicting ships of the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet - postmarked 1918.