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USS New Jersey Thanksgiving Dinner Menu 1917
Holiday Menus from Ship to Shore

Cover - U.S.S. New Jersey, Thanksgiving Day Dinner, November Twenty-ninth, 1917.

Cover - U.S.S. New Jersey, Thanksgiving Day Dinner, November Twenty-ninth, 1917.

Program of Music, November Twenty-ninth, Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen: March - The Glory of the Yankee Navy - J.P. Sousa, Overture - Poet and Peasant - F.V. Suppe, Serenade - Twilight Echoes - H.C. Miller, March - In Storm and Sunshine - J.C. Heed, Overture - Il Trovatore - Verdi, Sextette - From Lucia - Donizetti, Characteristic - Forest Whispers - F.H. Losey, March - The Stars and Stripes Forever - J.P. Sousa, Carl A. Hoefer, Bandmaster .

Program of Music, November Twenty-ninth, Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen.

Menu - Oysters en creme, Celery, Oysterettes, Olives, Roast Turkey a la New Jersey, Giblet Gravy, Oyster Dressing, Cranberry Sauce, Prime Roast Beef au jus, Creamed Whipped Potatoes, Creamed Cauliflower, Mince Pie, Fruit Cake, Harlequin Ice Cream, Assorted Fruit, Muscatels, Mixed Nuts, Coffee, Cigars, Thata All, O.J. Schulz, Chief Commissary Steward.

Menu - Thanksgiving Day Dinner Menu, U.S.S. New Jersey.

Source: New Jersey, USS file, ZC files, Navy Department Library.

Related Source: USS New Jersey BB-16 history, Dictionary of American Fighting Ships.