Re: troop ships
Posted by Fran Kent on December 26, 2009, 12:54 pm, in reply to "
troop ships"
This is a tough one, and getting an answer will be difficult. The problem is that all ships that carried troops were not exactly troopships; that is, they were not designed or built for that purpose. I served on a Liberty ship that had been more or less converted in order to accommodate both troops and cargo. Thus, although troops were crammed into No. 2 hold, and space was made available to prepare meals for them, no one would have called us a troopship. On the return trip, we carried POWs.I would bet that many other freighters were so used.
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