USSGeneral M.C. Meigs

ID: 644 ~ Source: Navsource Online - US National Archives photo # 80-G-235158 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. ~ Creator: U.S. Navy ~ Date: July 4, 1944
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Aerial view of USS General M. C. Meigs (AP-116) underway in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 4 July 1944, soon after completion. Photographed from an aircraft assigned to Naval Air Station, Hampton Roads.

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By Gerald McDonnell
“…they loaded us onto a transport, the General Meigs. And we went to sea. We were at sea for 12 days. Nobody knew where we were, where we were going, or what was going on. We just, there we were and we were on. There goes the 12th day we were at…