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Brenda Elthon
Dec 13, 2023
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…to be worthy of their service

The crew of the President Lincoln in lfeboats and on rafts, May 29, 1918.

On May 29, 1918, a German U-boat struck the USS President Lincoln, a troop transport ship, as she sailed in the North Atlantic five hundred miles west of France.

On board were seven hundred Americans who had served on the Western Front, including many w…

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