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Back Row: unknown, Niskalas, Fonda, Collins, Payne, [illegible]Middle Row: Butt, McDonald, Otard, Crush, unknown, [illegible], Spiro, Fletcher, A. Alexander, Hurst, R. ThomasChief Patterson, Bos'n AnklerFirst Row: Creekmore, Edmunds, Ervin, Bozard, Ens. White, Lt. Compton, Lt. Rosenkrans, Day, [illegible], J. Thomas, Willis
Caption reads, "Captain Thomas J. Senn, U. S. N., who has been placed in command of the new battleship U. S. S. West Virginia, the largest ship of itS kind in the U. S. or any other navy. The ship was placed in commission at the Norfolk Navy Yard, December 1."
A naval band welcomes Vice Admiral Henry A. Wiley aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia, a super-dreadnought in commission during WWII.
President Roosevelt is shown posing in the presidential limousine in front of officers and an army aircraft with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison (back of middle seat) and the Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson (beside Edison), among others. The president inspected aircraft at the Army's Bolling Field and the Naval Air Station.
Text on the back reads: "Charles Edison, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; President Roosevelt; and Louis Johnson, Assistant Secretary of War, as the President made an inspection of various types of aircraft at Army's Bolling Field and Naval Air Station."