1945 USS WEST POINT, Navy Naval Battleship, WWII Crew Newsletter, World War II

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1945 USS WEST POINT, Navy Naval Battleship, WWII Crew Newsletter, World War II:
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USS WEST POINT (WWII Navy Ship)

Newletter published by the ArmyTransportation Services Office on the Atlantic

Vol. 7 No. 3

30 November 1945

This listing is for an original WWIIpaper newsletter from the USS West Point. The first page has an article titledHalf Way Mark at 0900. It mentions being half wayfrom LahavreFrance to Boston due there by December 3. I did online research and found theUSSWest Point was making this trip with the destination Boston byDecember 3, 1945 so this is the same ship.

In 1945, West Point voyaged to Italian and French ports, via Oran or Gibraltar, staging from Hampton Roads, Virginia, Boston, or New York. After Germany surrendered, she took part in some of the initial \"Magic Carpet\" voyages, bringing home American troops from the European battlefronts. Following her last European voyage—to Le Havre, France—West Point was transferred to the Pacific Fleet. She departed Boston on 10 December 1945, transited the Panama Canal, and proceeded to Manila, Philippines via Pearl Harbor. Retracing the same route, she docked at pier 88 in New York on 7 February 1946 and soon got underway for Hampton Roads, where she was released from troop-carrying service on 22 February. Her last voyage under the name West Point was a short trip from Portsmouth to Newport News for re-conversion to a passenger liner. There, six days later, she was officially decommissioned, and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 12 March and transferred to the Maritime Commission\'s War Shipping Administration.

During her naval service she carried a total of over 350,000 troops which was the largest total of any Navy troopship in service during World War II. On one voyage in 1944 she was able to transport 9,305 people. Additionally the troop transport carried Red Cross workers, United Nations officials, children, civilians, prisoners of war, and U.S.O. entertainers.

Paper is fragile so you need tohandle it carefully. It is type print and has some illustrations mixed in,mostly like cartoon figures. Measures 13\" by 8\", stapled in uppercorner. Condition is as shown. Paper is fragile so it has clips, snips andsmall rips, small holes, rub and scuff, creases/folds. It has age and usewear. I usually don\'t sell items like this unless they are rare and I believethis paper it, because it survived 69 years. I am selling it \"as is\"as was found. It came from an estate cleanout dealer here in NJ.

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