USS Mount Vernon AP-22 1941-1946 World War II Cruise Book

Robert B. Lytle, Jr., Editor

Published by Department of the Navy/Campus Publishing Company, Washington, DC/Philadelphia, PA, 1946

About this Item

Department of the Navy/Campus Publishing Company, Washington, DC/Philadelphia, PA. 1946. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good +; light wear and tears to head, tail, and lower tips; light wear to upper tips; light soiling to boards; toning to endpapers; light spotty foxing to first and last 2-3 pages. No DJ. Blue tweed boards and spine with green lettering on the front board. Non-Paginated 4to. USS Mount Vernon (AP-22) was a troop transport that served with the United States Navy during World War II. Prior to her military service, she was a luxury ocean liner named SS Washington. As a troop transport her service was mostly on the Pacific side of World War II transporting British, Canadian, and American troops to all Allied pacific ports as far away as Australia and New Zealand. She was also part of the troop buildup in 1944 to Britain and the Mediterranean as Germany was attacked and in 1946 as she brought troops back to the US. This book is bull of photographs of life on board the ship and in her ports of call during her 5 years of WWII service. A clean very presentable copy of a rare Cruise Book. Seller Inventory # 009394

Bibliographic Details

Title: USS Mount Vernon AP-22 1941-1946 World War ...

Publisher: Department of the Navy/Campus Publishing Company, Washington, DC/Philadelphia, PA

Publication Date: 1946

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Gustav a. Abrolat, Photographer

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition