Weegee Daily… January 4, 1944… Effects of Explosion on a Navy Destroyer…

PM Daily, January 4, 1944, pp 12-13.
“Miss Irene Maher, manager of Maher’s Hotel, 116-06 Rockaway Beach Blvd., examines broken window in the hotel.”
“Sol Berger, proprietor, moves model from shattered window of his clothing shop, while Nat, glazier, takes out broken glass.”
“This window at a Rockaway Beach draft board headquarters was blown out by the explosion.”
Photos by Weegee, PM

Weegee Daily, January 4, 2013
No explosion on a Navy destroyer today…
On January 3, 1944, the less-than-year-old, 1700 ton, U.S.S. Turner exploded in NY Harbor.
(A few links about the Turner are here, here, here, and here.)
Photo by Google Street View, WD

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