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Troop billet assigning compartment 5, hatch 3, deck 1, and bunk number 1651 on the U.S.S. Tiger. According to http://www.shipscribe.com (accessed 3/17/2018): USS Tiger, a 6273 gross ton cargo ship and troop transport, was built at San Francisco, California, in 1917 as the civilian freighter Tiger. After more than a year of operating under War Department charter, she was taken over by the Navy and placed in commission in December 1918. Tiger made one round-trip voyage to France with a cargo of food and Army supplies in January-March 1919. She was then converted to a transport and spent the next several months taking part in the great effort to bring U.S. military veterans home from the European war zone. USS Tiger was decommissioned in August 1919 and returned to her owner, the Standard Transportation Company of Delaware.
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