80 years ago #OTD:
The #MSJohnEricsson arrived in New York! This is a special souvenir edition of the #SeaweedGazette.
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80 years ago #OTD aboard the #MSJohnEricsson:
Reviewing interesting facts about products used and purchased by the troops, as well as directions for leaving the ship when it arrives in New York tomorrow!
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80 years ago today on the #MSJohnEricsson...
Less than 997 miles til New York!
No more appendectomies!
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80 years ago today on the #MSJohnEricsson...
Grandpa had a little over 1,000 miles to go before reaching the United States!
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80 years ago today on the #MSJohnEricsson...
Trying to prepare the troops for civilian life. Cigarettes are no longer an acceptable form of payment.
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80 year's ago #OTD aboard the #MSJohnEricsson...
Appendectomy #1.
And I wonder where that Sentry Box is now....
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80 years ago today on the #MSJohnEricsson...
The ship passed the halfway point on the way home, and the ship's dispensary treated its 1,000th patient. He received some souvenirs...
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80 years ago #OTD my Grandpa had traveled 1,845 miles on the #MSJohnEricsson. Also, there hadn't been an appendectomy performed on that voyage yet, but each voyage produced at least one, so they were waiting for it...
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80 years ago #OTD on the #MSJohnEricsson, my Grandpa got his telegram ready to send my Grandma when he arrived in the States. I meant to take a picture of it last night but forgot, but that's exactly what it said! I don't recall a Voyage Certificate, though.
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80 years ago #OTD aboard the #MSJohnEricsson...
2,953 miles to go til New York.
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You think they were excited to go home?? I've seen pics of troops crammed onto ships but not this particular voyage.
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80 years ago #OTD my Grandpa was traveling through the English Channel on his journey back home on the #MSJohnEricsson. Perhaps he watched a movie, too?
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