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Willard A Holbrook (0811)

Details:

Title

Willard A Holbrook (0811),

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Darwin Harbour,

Nation of service

United States of America,

Service

Merchant Marine,

Service branch

Passenger,

Unit

Willard A Holbrook (0811),

Parent unit

American President Lines Ltd.,

Date arrived in NT

1942-01-06,

Date left the NT

1942-01-22,

History

President Taft was requisitioned by the United States War Department on 17 June 1941 for use as an Army Transport and renamed USAT Willard A. Holbrook (see also). She was part of the Pensacola convoy.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Merchant Navy, Merchant Marine, United States of America, Passengers, Willard A Holbrook (0811),

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C251260 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 304138, Naval Historical Collection], http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/WEARFIELD_TO_WILLIAM_MCARTHUR.pdf [Willard A. Holbrook (0811) p.78-81],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843836,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843915