World War II Service
Following shakedown, Ponchatoula departed the U.S. East Coast 13 December 1944, took on oil in the Netherlands West Indies and continued on to San Diego, California.
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Famous quotes containing the words world, war and/or service:
“The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.”
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