USAT General S.D. Sturgis

ID: 88 ~ Source: Gerhard Mueller-Debus, http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22137.htm ~ Creator: U.S. Navy ~ Date: 1949
This file appears in: Crossing the Atlantic
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USAT General S.D. Sturgis moored pierside, Bremerhaven, Germany, ca 1949.

ID: Sideview of a ship on water.

This file appears in: Crossing the Atlantic

By Andre Kessler
"On August 7, 1951, we boarded a very small former troop ship, which used to bring troops from the United States to Europe, the S.S. General Sturgis. When we boarded the ship, at eleven years old I was a pretty big kid, and they decided that I…