American soldiers on their way home from World War II, 1945.
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American soldiers on their way home from World War II, 1945.
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And they all proceeded to have kids
78 years ago. They are probably all dead. I don’t know why I think these things.
And that was just the line to the shitter….
did they stay outside the whole trip? how many sleeping quarters did they have?
Whenever I see one of these pic’s from WW2. I think maybe my dad was there.
And low and behold they’ll be asked to come back to the fire that is Korea 5 years later
About to get someone pregnant
I knew several service men and women who came back on the Queen Mary. One was my own great Aunt.
We are so lucky to have had the right people at the right time.
And a heck of a lot of grandmas about to get wrecked
Heroes All 🇺🇸
That must have been one hell of a party
But where’s Waldo?
This is a claustrophobia nightmare.
The USS Gonorrhea
Just imagine how much ejaculate is in the bilge of that ship
Bad ass.
They just wanted to go home. And make babies.
I wish I would have asked my dad about the ride home. He was discharged 12/25/45, pretty sure it was a good Christmas.
I was told there would be a lido deck.
400,000 Americans didn’t make it back 🫡
Thanks for your service🇺🇸
Holy fuckin repost Batman!!
Where was this taken
God bless everyone of them, thank you for your service
Every time I look at an image like this I wonder “who has to pee right now and is holding it in?”
Ay, it’s the Queen Mary! The pride of the Cunard line.
Most of them left for war prior to college, with or without high school diplomas. They volunteered because life at home was pure poverty. That was the case for both my grandfathers. IF they survived, they came back as 20 somethings to an America that expected young virile men.
The acronym PTSD wasn’t to be coined for another 40 years so they suffered without an outlet and many left fatherless children and widows in their wake post war.
Looks crowded. I’ll wait for the next one.
Umm how long did it take to cross the Atlantic? I have follow up questions..
That looks like a safety hazard
Everyone in this photo was hardcore antifa.
Home alive in forty-five.
On the Grey Ghost – aka the Queen Mary, now located in Long Beach, CA. Oh the stories she could tell
Must have been a pretty joyful day for them and their family.
Knowing that the worst is finally over and that you are going to see again your family… it must have been such an amazing, relieving and joyful feeling for them!
There are a lot of limp spined people on this post blaming everything on their older generations. Grow a set for fucks sake.
My dad used to tell me how, coming back from the war into New York harbor, the rush of men to the side of the ship passing the Statue of Liberty made the ship list to that side dramatically. Seeing this, I can believe it.
Not a phone in sight, just people living in the moment
They’d be sad what this country has become.
My dad was on that someplace
I love how every single person in this picture had their own life and their own story. This was just a moment in time in their journey and it’s interesting to see what each one of them was doing.
Interesting tidbit, the length of their trip home is sometimes considered a benefit to healing their PTSD. By the time the Vietnam War kicked off a soldier could be pulled off the front line and landing in the US 24hrs later. That sudden immersion back into normal American life was terribly jarring. During OIF/OEF the DoD tried to create programs to mimic that slow wind down that these longer trips home had on combat stress (results may vary).
I know it smell crazy in there
That bathroom was a mess
I had many WWII vet friends. They told me that the ships going over were more crowded than the ships returning.
It was more important to get the men over there to finish the war, and then To get them home safely.
If this picture is a true representation, imagine how more crowded the outbound ships
Any genealogy fans on this post?
Although most military records were destroyed in a 1973 St. Louis warehouse fire, I found one record about my grandfather, who served in both WWI and WWII. He was on a shipping manifest with other soldiers, returning from France, all listed as “casualties”.
When I saw WHAT they were ill from, I had the biggest laugh: Gonorrhea. They all had some explaining to do to their families back home!
So keep digging…you never know if your family member was on this ship!
Plot twist: the boat sank but no lives were lost because there was plenty of fucking room on that floating piece of wood.