Museum
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Evening Events
Explore history beyond the submarine through lectures and multi-media. Bowfin Park is the perfect setting. Come and relax on the lanai, watch the sunset, have some refreshments and enjoy an engaging evening lecture. Bowfin Park has hosted authors, aratist, historians and scientists who share their knowledge and skills on current events or topics from yesterday. Come and join us! |
Secrets of the Sub
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Vargas Girls
Artist Alberto Vargas became famous for his WWII watercolors depicting beautiful pin-up girls. "Varga girls" were so popular that many different artists immitated Vargas’ technique and approach to the female figure: an idealized female form eliciting sensuality and seduction. During the 1940’s his work was a hit amongst enlisted men who drew inspiration from them which inadvertently created high morale. The military was so influenced by this art that they adorned their vessels with it. Many military aircraft had Varga style girls decorating the nose of their planes, Varga girls were even printed on greeting cards and sent to enlisted men by their sweethearts. Inside the engine room aboard USS Bowfin, the crew posted a 1943 Vargas calendar, on which they doodled, wrote notes, and recorded their conquests of the sea. |
