CPL William Stinson Brown’s Bunk in the Sergeants’ Room, Marine Barracks, Pearl Harbor, 1941
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Interior view of the sergeants’ quarters at the Marine Barracks, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, showing CPL William Stinson Brown’s own bunk (“my sack”), Company A, USMC. The bed is draped with mosquito netting and holds a pith helmet resting on the pillow. A wall-mounted washbasin and built-in medicine cabinet stocked with shaving and grooming items stand in the corner, beneath a small mirror and open shelf. A calendar advertising a Honolulu shipping, sugar, pineapple, and insurance firm, dated April 1941, hangs on the wall beside curtained windows. Stacked footlockers and a large radio or fan unit sit in the foreground. William Brown noted on the back of the photograph: “My sack in the sargents room. This is still at the Marine Barracks, Pearl Harbor for Company A, USMC at Pearl Harbor.” 1941.
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This photograph is from the personal collection of photographs taken by CPL William Stinson Brown while stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii before the infamous attack of 7 December 1941. CPL Brown was there during the attack. These unique photographs were donated to the COGG Honor Archive for public use of students, writers and researchers of history. The generous donation was from CPL William S Brown’s, son, William Stinson “Bill” Brown Jr. and his loving granddaughter Caitlin Brown Clancy. Handwritten caption on verso: “My sack in the sargents room. This is still at the Marine Barracks, Pearl Harbor for Company A, USMC at Pearl Harbor.”