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SS Marine Adder

Built in 1945 for the United States Maritime Commission as SS Marine Adder, a Type C4-S-A3 troop ship. See background more here.

S. S. Marine Adder, which carried CBI troops home to the US after WWII.
Captain Wilson P. Porch. Served in CBI Theater as Technical Inspector for Aircraft, 61st Air Service Group, for several years. He was already reserve officer (Second Lieutenant) in the infantry (ASN O-411880) at Camp Blanding in Florida when war broke out. Things moved quickly for him, and by December 10, 1941, newspapers had already included him in lists of those...
961st Petroleum Products Laboratory members on the boat towards home, on SS Marine Adder, at the end of the war. Lts. DeRussy and Cordy.
961st Petroleum Products Laboratory members on the boat towards home, on SS Marine Adder, at the end of the war, arriving in San Francisco in 1946.
961st Petroleum Products Laboratory members on the boat towards home, on SS Marine Adder, at the end of the war.
961st Petroleum Products Laboratory members on the boat towards home, on SS Marine Adder, at the end of the war, leaving Shanghai, China, to arrive in San Francisco in 1946.