Mess halls

Secretary of the U.S. Navy Francis P. Matthews is shown while on a visit to the Yokosuka Naval Facilities in Japan. He is seen in the bluejacket or enlisted men's Mess Hall at the Navy's Fleet Activities Command, Yokosuka, Japan. Secretary Matthews is addressing the enlisted assembly before joining them for Turkey dinner. Secretary Matthews' trip took place November 12 - November 30, 1950.

Women's Army Corps (WAC) Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (center) serves herself from the "chow line" accompanied by two unidentified members of the Women's Army Corps.

Women's Army Corps (WAC) Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (far right) prepares to go down the "chow line" and a group of unidentified servers stand prepared to assist her.

Colonel Westray Battle Boyce (second from left) is sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner in the mess hall with members of the WAC Detachment in Frankfurt, Germany. Also present are Mrs. Genevieve Forbes Herrick, Member of the National Civilian Advisory Committee on the WACs (far right, back to camera) and Major Ruby E. Herman, Deputy WAC Staff Director for the European theater (second from right, back to camera). All others are unidentified.

Scene of the Mess Hall in Frankfurt, Germany, where WACs stationed there shared Thanksgiving Dinner with thirty German orphans. All are unidentified.

Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen McClure (second from right), European Theatre Staff Director for the Women's Army Corps (WACs), entertains some of the thirty German orphans that the WACs of the Frankfurt, Germany detachment hosted for Thanksgiving dinner in their mess hall. All others are unidentified.

Photograph shows the newly painted mess hall in the WAC battalion area in North Africa.

This is a photograph of the WAC mess kitchen taken two weeks after it had been set up in North Africa. The WAC (standing) and the soldier in the lower left corner are both unidentified.