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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 104119

USS Kentuckian
(ID # 1544)

Arriving in a U.S. port, while transporting U.S. troops home from Europe in 1919.
The original image is printed on a post card sent by a serviceman to his mother, Mrs. Martha M. Johns of Sheridan, Indiana. It is postmarked Norfolk, Virginia, 6 September 1919.
Note the flags (among them a Salvation Army banner) carried by women waiting on the pier.
The reverse side of this card is seen in Photo # NH 104119-A-KN.

Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2006.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 24 October 2006