This month, a shot of leisure hours for submarine chaser crews. The photo is pretty washed out, so not great detail, but this is a YMCA tent on Corfu, Greece. I'm pretty sure those are olive trees in the background.
A total of thirty-six U.S. 110-foot submarine chasers were stationed at Base 25, in the cove formed by Fustipidia Point on the east side of the island. From there they would sail to assigned locations on the Otranto Barrage, working to contain U-boats and prevent them from passing through the Strait of Otranto into the Mediterranean Sea.
A typical rotation was four days on the barrage line and four days at American Bay, their name for Base 25. Certainly there was plenty of work to do, repairing engines, replenishing food and ammunition supplies and so on, but at times during those four days at the base, one can imagine the crews looking forward to some social time under the YMCA tent.
--Todd Woofenden, editor