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“FAREWELL! FRANCE”“6 a.m. all packed ready to move out at 7 a.m. Brest Casual Co: #2791 18th – Hiked down to dock at 7 O’clock waited around till 3 in the afternoon. The rest of the bunch comes down in trucks and go aboard the same boat with us. Holland Line ships “Zeelandia”. Takes 12 or 13 days to make the trip. oh-la-la!!!” American soldier Ervin Earl Putnam’s WW1 Diary July-August 1919 – Photos: August 22 1919 & summer 1919, Brest harbor, American troops aboard USS Zeelandia, casting a last look at France – @ Green Lake Postcards & Kansas Historical Society -- source link
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