This is CDR Joseph “Jumpin’ Joe” Clifton enjoying some well-earned ice cream in the cockpit of his F6F Hellcat on USS Saratoga after a successful raid in 1944. In the U.S. Navy, ice cream became known as “gedunk” in the 1930s because the characters in the popular comic strip “Harold Teen” were regularly shown eating “gedunk sundaes” at a soda fountain. Today, gedunk refers to all junk food as well as the shop where it can be purchased on a ship.
#NationalIceCreamDay
https://usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2020/october/heapin-helpin-gedunk
