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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: October 16, 2013
Caption: Fort Mason Marker
Additional Description: Captions: The San Francisco Port of Embarkation band welcomes a shipload of troops 1944. (left), Warbrides and babies from Australian and New Zealand arriving at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation aboard Matson Liner “Lurline”, April 7, 1948. (center top left); San Francisco Port of Embarkation, U.S. Army Fort Mason, San Francisco, California. View toward west, 1920. (center bottom left); Troops boarding. San Francisco Port of Embarkation, 1940’s (center top right); War dogs brought back from service in the Pacific to the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, February 2, 1946. (center bottom left); Troops returning to the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, pier 2, (now Herbst Pavilion) 1940s. (left). All photos courtesy of National Park Service Park Archives.
Submitted: November 6, 2013, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p259876
File Size: 3.311 Megabytes

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