In this June 20, 1942 photo provided by the Naval History and Heritage Command, Howard Curtis, a U.S. Navy second-class aerographer, wears a seven-month's beard at Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
Sailors looking back fondly on those hirsute days of yesteryear when they could grow beards without the chief going ballistic have been given the dimmest ray of hope by the Navy‘s top admiral, military.com reports.
