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“The Huddle”, Vol. 2, No. 3, dated October 16, 1945 . A 12-page newsletter “published by and for permanent personnel and patients of the Hospital Ship "Jarrett M. Huddleston”. The ship was originally launched as the “Liberty Ship” "SS Samuel F.B. Morse" on September 28, 1942 before being sold to the War Department to be converted to a hospital ship between November 1943 and August 1944. Commissioned "USAHS Jarrett M. Huddleston" in August 1944, the ship operated between the east coast of the United States and the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater of Operations until it was decommissioned in December 1945. Commissioned as "USAT Jarrett M. Huddleston" in 1946, it became surplus in 1949 and was scrapped in 1971.

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sc.0502.002_013.001

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1945 October 16

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United States. Army--Hospital ships.

The Huddle, 2:3, 1945

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