Photo #: NH 98567
USS Mercury (ID # 3012)
Ship's first liberty party is inspected by her Executive Officer,
Commander Prentiss P. Bassett, at St. Nazaire, France. They were
leaving the ship after the completion of her first trans-Atlantic
trooping voyage, circa January 1918.
Note the truck at left, marked "U.S. 2234-X", and the
French army sentry with a Lebel rifle, in the left center.
Courtesy of James Russell, 1980.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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