USAT U.S. Grant

ID: 554 ~ Source: US Navy photo # NH 93756 from the collections US Naval Historical Center, C/O Wikimedia Commons ~ Creator: Photographed by the U.S. Army Air Corps Second Observation Squadron. ~ Date: 11 May 1938
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USAT U.S. Grant underway in Manila Bay. Note the U.S. flag painted on her side. Originally a German ocean liner named Konig Wilhelm II, she was seized by the United States during the First World War and renamed USS Madawaska (ID-3011) in 1917 before being renamed USS U. S. Grant (AP-29) in 1922.

This file appears in: The First Atomic Bomb

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