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Title: SS City of Flint
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The deck of SS City of Flint, the first American ship captured by the Germans during World War II. Photo caption reads: "Members of the present crew are shown with the Nazi flag that flew on the City of Flint. Left to right, John Flanagan, Jack Lassard, Kenneth Weingarten. Lassard holds an SOS flag made by a member of the captured crew. It was evidently made to be thrown into the sea, but was found later on ship". Photo dated: June 20, 1940.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00073070
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8630.
CARL0000075652
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27551
Subject: Flanagan, John
Cargo ships--California--Los Angeles
Merchant mariners--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.)
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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