Just bought my first mac and trying to find and open a usb thumb drive

Just bought my first mac and trying to find and open a usb thumb drive. Simple procedure on my pc but lost on the mac book.

Is it on your desktop? Finder>Preferences>General>> show external Disk
double click the icon on desktop

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