Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Cunningham is sent to San Francisco in August of 1945 pending assignment to the USS Arkansas. Writes on October 16, 1945 that he hopes "to be aboard my ship by the end of the week." Describes "Navy Week" in letter of October 28, with the "many people visiting the ships now at the piers here." Mentions that among those ships are the carrier Bunker Hill, the "huge" battleship Iowa, the battleship Colorado, the submarine tender Fulton, the submarine Capitaine and the Arkansas...