Wishing you a happy Labor Day

Hopefully, you have the day off. If not, proceed accordingly, setting your own level of commitment. Maybe work on your mustache.

Photographed by Lieutenant Commander Charles Kerlee, USNR. Description: National Archives Catalog #: 80-G-469326

Lieutenant Junior Grade H. Blake Moranville, USNR, napping in Fighter Squadron Eleven’s ready room on USS HORNET (CV-12), in company with VF-11’s mascot dog, circa January 1945. He was shot down while strafing Saigon Airport, French Indochina, on 12 January 1945. Captured by local French authorities, he ultimately escaped via China.

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