SS United States    SS America Pan Am Stratocruiser

Larry Driscoll's     MEMORIES OF A TRANSATLANTIC PASSENGER

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   I spent my first 7 years in places like Rochester New York and Kanosha Wisconsin. In the fall of 1950 my father, came home to tell us we would be moving to Paris France. He had was going to work for the Marshall Plan, running the Voice of America station. To get there we would be sailing on the SS AMERICA

   The preferred mode of travel to Europe in the 1950's was by ship. Sure you could fly, but part of the fun and excitement of a transatlantic crossing was to experience the glamour of a ship. Piston airplanes were fine, but transatlantic ships were better. They were more glamorous , and you were able to experience first hand the Atlantic Ocean. So here we go, starting with a sailing on the SS AMERICA, a return home on a PANAM Stratocruiser, and three crossing on the SS UNITED STATES


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