SS George Washington was an ocean liner built in 1908 for the Bremen-based North German Lloyd and was named after George Washington, the first President...
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George Washington Carver (c. 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and...
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SS George Washington Carver was a Liberty ship built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II. The ship was named in honor of George...
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Prince George Washington of Siam (Wichaichan) (1838–1885) USS George Washington, four US Navy ships SS George Washington, a German ocean liner George Washington...
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Germany, with her stepbrother and manager, Karl Grobecker, aboard the SS George Washington, which arrived in New York on April 3, 1924. According to the ship...
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Look up Washington in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Washington most commonly refers to: George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United...
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The 24th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Karstjäger was a German mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party...
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United States SS Leviathan SS California (1927) SS Virginia (1928) SS Pennsylvania (1929) SS Manhattan (1931) SS Washington (1932) SS Santa Rosa (1958)...
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United States during the 1850s. She was originally named the SS George Law, after George Law of New York. The ship sank in a hurricane in September 1857...
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1917. By 1925 the corporation operated ex-German liners Leviathan, George Washington, America, Republic and the USSB built ships President Roosevelt and...
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Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
main constituent groups were the Allgemeine SS (General SS) and Waffen-SS (Armed SS). The Allgemeine SS was responsible for enforcing the racial policy...
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SS Kaiser Wilhelm II of 1903), America (ex-German SS Amerika of 1905), Mount Vernon (ex-German Kronprinzessin Cecile of 1907) and George Washington (ex-German...
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The ships were assigned as a convoy escort for the ocean liner SS George Washington, carrying President Woodrow Wilson, and arrived with that ship in...
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African-Americans. The first, in honor of Booker T. Washington, was christened by Marian Anderson in 1942, and the SS Harriet Tubman, recognizing the only woman...
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SS blood group tattoos (German: Blutgruppentätowierung) were worn by members of the Waffen-SS in Nazi Germany during World War II to identify the individual's...
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(USS Regulus (AF-57) SS Maritime Victory SS George Washington Carver William Hopper Farrell Lines Steamship Inc SS Argonaut SS Resolute African Comet...
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The Waffen-SS (German: [ˈvafn̩ʔɛsˌʔɛs]; lit. 'Armed SS') was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Its formations...
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SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler or SS Division Leibstandarte, abbreviated as LSSAH (German: 1. SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte SS Adolf...
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SS-GB is an alternative history novel by Len Deighton, set in a United Kingdom conquered and occupied by Germany during the Second World War. The novel's...
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of 32 crew members from Italian freighter Florida and for commanding the SS United States on her record-breaking maiden crossings of the Atlantic. He...
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newly commissioned Nevada. Florida then joined the passenger ship SS George Washington on 12 December, which was carrying President Woodrow Wilson on his...
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Week Won't Kill You" while on board the military transport vessel SS George Washington. The ship would dock in Liverpool, England on January 29, 1944. Biographer...
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73°55′37″W / 40.855819°N 73.926952°W / 40.855819; -73.926952 The George Washington Educational Campus is a facility of the New York City Department of...
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of the United States, George Washington. The second wife of Augustine Washington, she became a prominent member of the Washington family. She spent a large...
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Waffen-SS recruited significant numbers of non-Germans, both as volunteers and conscripts. Of a peak strength of 950,000 in 1944, the Waffen-SS consisted...
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Eastine Cowner, a former waitress, at work on the Liberty ship SS George Washington Carver at the Kaiser shipyards, Richmond, California, in 1943. Women...
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Camp Stoneman, California. On 3 July, the men boarded the SS Monterey and the SS George Washington for Australia. On 26 July, the troopers arrived at Brisbane...
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Guantanamo escorting convoys until late in May when she escorted SS George Washington from Kingston, Jamaica, to Miami, Florida. Underhill returned on...
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George Washington Crile (November 11, 1864 – January 7, 1943) was an American surgeon. Crile is now formally recognized as the first surgeon to have succeeded...
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Pearl River, fleet superintendent and one-time chief engineer on the SS George Washington. The reserve fleet ships, valued at over $255 million, had their...
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