You never know what turns up in trash cans
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2019 6:51 pm
Looking into some trash bins and I found a 1934-1940 Navy Photo album that belonged to Seaman First Class, Herrbert E. Rodenkirch who is buried at our Woods Veterans Cemetery at the VA center in Milwaukee, WI. He was in recruit platoon 34-16 at San Diego NTS he was born 24 Jan 1912 and died 20 May 1976. Why someone would throw it out is beyond me
The photo album covers most of his time in the US Navy. He has a lot of pictures of the dry dock and the wreck of the USS Sicard DD 346 and the Lea DD 118.
The 2 ships collided on 12 May 1935 and were repaired at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard between June & July of 1935. The sailor must have been on the Sicard DD 346 because there are lots of pictures of the repaired ship and his time on the ship. The early pictures of his boot camp are dated 20 July 1934. The album is about 2 inches thick and remains mostly intact. On average there are approximately 8 -10 photos per page and 23 pages in the album. Each page is double sided with the pictures held on by gold paper, sticky corners like seen in the old family 1940s photo albums. The photos are not glued down to the paper. They can be removed. I figure there are approximately a little more than 400 photos. A nice historical find and I also recovered a scrap book of news paper clippings from 1941. Nothing about Dec 7th. Its like reading a paper about the winds of war back in 1941.
So for free this was a nice historical save.



The photo album covers most of his time in the US Navy. He has a lot of pictures of the dry dock and the wreck of the USS Sicard DD 346 and the Lea DD 118.
The 2 ships collided on 12 May 1935 and were repaired at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard between June & July of 1935. The sailor must have been on the Sicard DD 346 because there are lots of pictures of the repaired ship and his time on the ship. The early pictures of his boot camp are dated 20 July 1934. The album is about 2 inches thick and remains mostly intact. On average there are approximately 8 -10 photos per page and 23 pages in the album. Each page is double sided with the pictures held on by gold paper, sticky corners like seen in the old family 1940s photo albums. The photos are not glued down to the paper. They can be removed. I figure there are approximately a little more than 400 photos. A nice historical find and I also recovered a scrap book of news paper clippings from 1941. Nothing about Dec 7th. Its like reading a paper about the winds of war back in 1941.
So for free this was a nice historical save.