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Description: | WORLD WAR 1939-1945 T.S.S. ANTENOR SERVED AS AN ARMED MERCHANT CRUISER FROM 1930 - 1942 ATTACHED TO THE MEDITERRANEAN & EAST INDIA STATION. SERVED AS A TROOP TRANSPORT FROM 1942 - 1947 DURING WHICH TIME SHE CARRIED A TOTAL OF 117,136 MEN & WOMEN OF THE ARMED FORCES TO EGYPT, NORTH, SOUTH & EAST AFRICA, INDIA, BURMA, MALAYA, ITALY & NORMANDY OF THESE 49, 795 WERE AMERICAN TROOPS LANDED ON THE NORMANDY BEACH HEADS.
Plastic rectangular plaque for the full hull builder's model of the 'Antenor' (1925), a powered general cargo ship.
CA: AAA.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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