[PRCo] Re: SS Normandie (OT from: car restoration work)

[John Swindler]

>Donald Galt commented:
>
>One wartime disaster that couldn't be kept secret.
>
>It was a shock even to us a continent away. The "Weekly Reader" had only 
>just
>come out with an article about the SS Lafayette - immediately recognisable 
>as
>the Normandie even to one as young as I - when the daily paper headlined 
>the
>ship on fire. The next day's front page showed her capsized, the final nail 
>in
>the coffin.
>
>I would point out that in Feb 1942 the war was already more than two years 
>old
>for everybody but the US.
>


And USSR which entered WWII less then six months before US.  That is if  one 
discounts Russia-Finnish war.  But then again, Japan and China got a head 
start.

I'm clueless, Don, on how this could ever possibly be linked with 
Pittsburgh.

John

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