Month: October 2019
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American POW registration cards
On May 29, 1942, the S.S. Stanvac Calcutta, an American custom-built tanker owned by the Socony Vacuum Company, steamed out of Montevideo, Uruguay bound for Caripito, Venezuela. Eight days later on June 6, while the ship was 500 miles off the Brazilian coast east of Recife, a German commerce raider, the Stier, attacked the tanker…
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Maury Whale Chart
When English colonists first began settling the eastern seaboard of North America, they quickly discovered in its coastal waters enough fish to feed the growing Euro-American population for generations. A variety of whales also swam the coastal waters of America’s astonishingly rich fisheries too. While fish supplied food, whales yielded precious sperm oil and whale…