Coffee time on board USS Coral Sea (CVB-43). Fireman Apprentice Harold E. Dillahunt enjoying a cup of coffee while checking the boilers in the ship’s fire room, 30 August 1948.
Coral Sea, along with her two sisters FDR and Midway, at the time of Dillahunt’s java intake were the largest aircraft carriers in the world and would remain as such until USS Forrestal was commissioned in 1955, though Coral Sea would remain in the fleet until 1990, putting in an impressive 42-years.