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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 64929
USS Siboney (ID # 2999)
Soldiers boarding the ship at the U.S. Army docks at American
Bassens, Gironde River, France, 24 December 1918.
Note the caterpiller tractors on railroad cars in the background,
and rifle-armed sentries wearing campaign hats.
Photographed by Machinist John G. Krieger, USN.
Donation of John G. Krieger, 1967.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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