The USS Wyoming was the largest military ship in the world when it was launched in 1911 from the Philadelphia Naval Yards. The USS Wyoming never fired a hostile shot during her 35 years of service, despite participating in both WWI and WWII.

From 1914-1918, she escorted convoys and VIP’s across the Atlantic and served with the British Grand Fleet. After the London Naval Conference of 1930, she was demilitarized and served as a training ship in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This training was continued during and after WWII. She holds the record for firing the most ammunition of any American ship during the War, firing nearly 2 million rounds through 7 different types of guns while training an estimated 35,000 anti-aircraft gunners. All without a single personnel casualty. The ship was decommissioned, sold for scrap and dismantled in 1947.

According to the booklet, "This is a booklet to describe and illustrate what the good old "Wyoming" did from the time she left Lynnhaven Roads under sealed orders on November 26, 1917, in the company with the U.S.S. New York, U.S.S. Florida, and U.S.S. Delaware to become the Sixth Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet until shortly after the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet off May Island, Scotland, November 21, 1918, when she bade good-byeeeeee to Admiral Beatty and his brave and loyal officers and men, and proceeded to Portland, England, to become the flagship of Admiral Wm. S. Sims, U.S.N., for escorting President Wilson into the harbor of Brest. Our duty then continued with taking Ambassador Davis to Plymouth, reluctantly parting with Admiral Sims, coaling for the last time and then hoisting the signal "Farewell, Homeward Bound," as we cast to port and headed West. All in all it is just a story of our part "Over There.""

The booklet was funded using a christmas gift given by Mrs. H.R. Rea to the ship. "The Huns decided we didn't want a Christmas tree and we couldn't have a Ship's Ball. We wanted something that everyone of us would like, without a dissenting voice, and that [Mrs. Rea] would like, too. Finally, somebody said something about a ship's book. No ship had ever put out one. Why not do it and be original, and at the same time we would have a written record of our twelve months in the War Zone?"

According to the inscriptions on the flyleaf, this booklet originally belonged to Lewis W. Brown and was presented to Jerry Enos by Bob Murrey in 1968.