Word: lifejackets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru twirled by helicopter to Bombay on a sea hop from the British aircraft carrier Albion, maneuvering with Indian naval units. Before taking off from the Albion, Visitor Nehru looked a trifle apprehensive as a long-legged British admiral fussed with Nehru's "Mae West" lifejacket...
Having been afloat in a lifejacket several miles astern of the Franklin at the time the photograph was made, I cannot say from personal knowledge that Captain Steichen did not make that photograph. I do remember that in talking with survivors of the Franklin photo lab ... they told me that the pictures from which this is a selection were made by enlisted photographers aboard the cruiser which came alongside...
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