Twice a week a flying boat operated by the Naval Air Transport service alights to bring mail and an occasional visitor to an isolated Naval Air Base in the Bahamas (Great Exuma Island). A crash boat from the station goes out to the plane to land the mail and visitors. Here a sailor dressed up in his whites in Bahamas Oct. 28, 1943 waits anxiously to learn whether there is room aboard the plane for him to fly to the United States for a furlough. (AP Photo/Shugars )

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