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U.S.S. Mount Vernon
The USS Mount Vernon after being torpedoed by a German submarine in the eastern Atlantic on September 5, 1918. The torpedo killed 36 men. The ship made port the next day in Brest, France, where it was given a temporary patch. It is possible that…
Tags: 536th Engineers Service Battalion; Army Transport Service; ATS; Buster Williams; military history; military service; Mount Vernon; Navy ship; troop transport ship; U.S.S. Mount Vernon; USS Mount Vernon; veterans; Veterans Administration; Veterans Legacy Program; World War I; World War, 1914-1918; WWI
U.S.S. Orizaba
The USS Orizaba leaving port for France in 1918. During World War I, the ship carried over 15,000 soldiers to France. After the war ended, it brought another 30,000 back before being decommissioned on September 4, 1919. Crozier Williams (1895?-1948)…
Passenger List of Organizations and Casuals
An outgoing United States Army passenger list of organizations and casuals from Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1918. The United States Army Transport Service (ATS) compiled records of all persons who passed through United States and foreign ports via ATS…
U.S.S. Leviathan
The USS Leviathan at harbor in 1918. The ship was acquired from Germany by the United States Navy in 1917, serving as a troop transport ship until it was decommissioned on October 29, 1919. Fred White (1898-1919) and the 547th Engineer Service…
Passenger List, 1918
The passenger list for Colored Company D of the 546th Engineers. The company departed from New York, New York for France on September 25, 1918 on board the SS Oxfordshire. Commodore Isaac Murray (1896?-1947) (fourth from top) was part of this company…