“Frenchie’s Bar”, a cross roads store, bar, juke joint, and gas station in the cotton plantation area, Melrose, Louisiana.
USS Block Island CVE 106 - F4U Corsair - 5 June 1945
USS Block Island (CVE 106), Marine Ordnance Man works on the .50 cal machine guns of a Vought F4U “Corsair”, on one of the ship’s elevators. Taken 5 June 1945, during operations off Okinawa.










