Standing at the back of the rows of the cots where the men sat, he began to notice from their silhouettes against the screen that they were holding hands. WWII Gay Navy/Sailor recounts tales of SexĮxcerpt from the book Coming Out Under Fire The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two: Burt Miller, a gay Navy officer who served aboard an LST (landing ship, tank) in the Pacific, was astounded one night to find that some of the crewmen, who had been overseas for more than a year and had seen women only once in the Philippines, were pairing up in the dark while watching movies on the tank deck.
