Food for U.S. Navy sailors in training during World War I in the United States. Sailors outside mess facility at Naval Station Great Lakes seated on stools in a doorway. They eat food. A sailor in an apron poses. He holds a plate of food.
U.S. Navy cooks at work in the Great Lakes Naval Training Center (Naval Station Great Lakes) during World War I. Interior of a kitchen. The cooks put meat and then some eggs in a grinder. A man turns the handle of the slicer. A cook mixes and shapes a meat loaf. He places it in a pan. The cook takes meat loaf out of an oven. He slices it. He takes a pan of baked potatoes from the oven and places them on a platter. He dishes soup from a vat into a kettle. Creamed peas in a vat. Steaks are cooked on a stove top. A man draws coffee from a huge urn into pots.
Food for U.S. Navy sailors in training in the United States during World War I. At the Naval Station Great Lakes training facility, sailors seen near a large bin. A sign on the bin reads: 'The quickest way to reach a man's heart is through his stomach'. The sailors get plates from the bin and stand in a chow line. They choose food from trays and platters. Workers behind counters place food on plates as the sailors pass. Officers in a hall. Pictures on a wall. Men walk past. Officers, one with a notepad and a pencil in hand, watch a kitchen worker working out on a punching bag. A seaman poses on steps with a cut-out of the Statue of Liberty.
Group of U.S. Navy sailors in training during World War I, having completed initial training at Natal Station Great Lakes, prepare to depart for training at new camps or other assignments. American sailors stand in ranks with sea bags or duffel bags. Some of them leave the barracks with the sea bags. They march out past a guard shack.
U.S. Navy sailors in barracks at the Naval Station Great Lakes during World War 1 training. Men stand in ranks in the barracks. Hammocks rolled and tied to rafters. Men let down the hammocks, unroll and untie them. They sleep in the hammocks. The men wake up. Some of the men swing down from the hammocks, roll and tie them up. The men walk in a line to shower area. The sailors take showers.
U.S. Navy sailors march during training exercises in the United States at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station near North Chicago. The sailors march in ranks on a parade field. They hold rifles. Buildings of the Station in the far background. Some of the sailors stand at attention. They undergo a rifle drill. They put bayonets in scabbards and pretend to aim and fire from standing position. The sailors march in formation. Smoke from a chimney in the foreground.