USS Alcedo (SP-166) while off NY City in August 1917. While escorting a convoy en route to Brest, France, Alcedo was torpedoed and sunk by UC-71 on 5 November 1917. Twenty-one crewmembers were lost with the ship. She was the first American vessel lost in WWI. [2700 x 3407]

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« Pooli a cat who served abroad a United States attack transport during WW2, and who was awarded three service ribbons and four battle stars on her 15th birthday, 1959 [412×399]

Locomotive fireman shortly before steam locomotives were phased out in the UK. These young men were hired temporarily to replace experienced fireman who were retiring early en masse to avoid being relegated to ditch digging duty after steam was entirely gone. 1966. [752×480] »

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