Navy Men Holding Their Mascot
by Bettmann
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Navy Men Holding Their Mascot
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Bettmann
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Photograph - Photography
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(Original Caption) Baby Seal Adopted as Mascot by Pacific Coast Gobs. Some of the gobs at the Naval Aviation station at San Diego, Cal. with their pet mascot, a baby seal, which literally jumped into the hearts of the Navy men. While one of the F5 seaplanes was compelled to make a forced landing off the California coast, the seal actually jumped into the cockpit of the plane. It was brought ashore and kept as mascot by the naval aviators at the San Diego station. The seal became sick from eating too heavily, and the officers decided to cast it into the sea, but the seal would not be denied and returned to the air station water corral, and now its a permanent member of the naval air station.
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May 17th, 2020
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