Navy Nurse and Seabee Married Near Crossroads – Kwajalein Island, 1946
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- June 13, 1946
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NAVY NURSE AND SEABEE MARRIED NEAR CROSSROADS —
Kwajalein Island, neighbor of Bikini in the Marshalls, had its first white wedding recently when Navy Nurse Lt. (jg) Margaret Scully of Milton, Massachusetts, and Seabee Lt. (jg) Timothy O’Leary of Chicago were married with all the trimmings of the atomic age. Cooperative NATS and ATC pilots gave the event a stateside touch by flying in a complete 1946 wedding outfit (flowers included) for the bride. Dress needs of the bridesmaid and groom were taken care of in the same fashion. A Catholic Chaplain officiated at the ceremony in a base chapel. The chief medical officer on the island gave the bride away. The bride wore an engraved gold band designed, moulded and carved in the Kwajalein dental clinic. Several hundred uniformed well-wishers, Crossroads personnel, were on land for the reception. Bride and groom are both stationed on the island.
Seabee O’Leary carries his bride across the threshold of the once-abandoned shack that he and his friends transformed into a honeymoon house during their spare time.