To: Gaffer
Military Sea Transportation Service.
Troops on the fan tail and bow sections.
Military and dependents stacked in tiny staterooms five deep...
The ships were named for late Army generals.
23 posted on
12/18/2021 8:09:53 AM PST by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Our last trip was on the General W. A. Mann.
Two weeks from Yokohama to Oakland.
We stopped for one day in Honolulu.
24 posted on
12/18/2021 8:13:02 AM PST by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
I remember flying on commercialized versions of the C-97 and also flew on the Lockheed Constellation...... never went seabee, though...
25 posted on
12/18/2021 8:13:41 AM PST by
Gaffer
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