Print, Photographic

Print. Black and white photographic print of a window display at J.L. Hudson Company Department Store. Two female mannequins are dressed in the ladies military uniforms of the United States Coast Guard and Navy stand in front of a landscape mural. A large fluted column is lying horizontally with the officer crest of the Navy affixed above. Signage at the central foreground of the display reads, "To the Women of America, The men of the Navy and Coast Guard are in for one reason alone - TO FIGHT. Sharing the deeds of Victory here on the home front are the Women of America, they carry on - as Waves or Spars - with the service jobs in order to release a man to fight. That is what you - as a member of the WAVES or SPARS can do to help win this war quickly. So take the step that you'll be proud of all your life. Volunteer for the Waves and Spars today!" Also, signage is affixed to the landscaped background and reads, "I Have Not Yet Begun To Fight, Yeah, John Paul Jones started something when he said that. That was during the battle between the old Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis. In case you don't know who the guy is that they named this ship after, he was the Skipper of the old Bonhomme Richard. And of all the broken down stinking old tubs that ever carried a gun, she was the worst. They called her a forty gun frigate. Well, Jones had another name for her, but he kept it to himself. He asked for a ship and this is what he drew. So he gets himself a crew together and they start of on a shakedown cruise. Boy, what a nightmare. She creaked, and she leaked, she refused to answer the helm and to top it off, her guns wouldn't fire. When they put back into port the crew told Jones to take his ship and toss it back to the old ladies of France who gave it to him. I don't know how he got them to stick. But he did and off they go, looking for trouble. So he ran smack into the forty-five gun Serapis. There she is - the pride of the Royal Navy. And with her is the Lion, with another twenty guns and back of these guns were fighters. Don't let anybody tell you different, those Limeys could fight. And no sooner do they sight the old Bonhomme Richard than they open up with everything they've got. From then on Jones did nothing but take it. An officer goes to the quarterdeck where goes is fighting his ship and he says, 'We're through, sir - our ship can't last twenty minutes!' 'In that case,' says Jones, 'put her alongside the Serapis and when we go down, we'll take the Serapis with us.' Well, by now the Bonhomme Richard is ablaze from stem to stern. And the Captain of the Serapis can't see our flag on account of the smoke. 'Aboard the Bonhomme Richard!' he calls, 'You stuck your flag? Do you surrender?' What do you think Jones answered? 'I have not yet begun to fight!' And he wasn't lying. They grappled and Jones led his men in one of the wildest knock-down and drag-out fights in history. It was the first American naval victory, and there on the deck of the captured Serapis, Jones and his men looked back to see their old Bonhomme Richard go down in flames. Some of them cheered her. Some of them sang Yankee Doodle. Others just turned away. But every one of them had tears in his eyes - you see, they didn't know that they loved her until they'd fought for her. Now that's the way it was in their Navy. It was passed along over the years, and that's the way tit was in mine. You felt toward the ship like a like you do toward a woman when you married her - you took her for better or for worse. You didn't leave her when the going got tough. Oh, never mind! Go ahead and find yourself a better ship.' These dramatic lines are spoken by Edward G. Robinson in the new motion picture - 'Destroyer.'" Affixed signage at the lower central foreground of the window reads, "Buy U.S. War Savings Bonds, Immediate Delivery, WAR BONDS, 11th Floor, Woodward, Section D." The date and photographic sequence number are printed on the bottom of the recto, "8-20-43; 18866-2x."