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Advice required re US/UK Navy records
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Georgina | Report | 22 Oct 2018 18:51 |
I am not sure if I am posting this on the correct forum but would be helpful for any advice as to how to go forwared. My friend was adopted and is now in touch with her birth mother's family but has no information about her father and nor do the family. We suspect her father was a GI as she was born in 1946 and her mother was in the land army in Norfolk. Recently a photo surfaced and on the back is a name with the words US Navy. SS Martin van Buren. Care of P.O. New York. |
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ErikaH | Report | 22 Oct 2018 19:32 |
The SS Martin van Buren was a Merchant Vessel - not a US Navy vessel |
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Georgina | Report | 22 Oct 2018 21:20 |
Thank you for your reply. have you any tips as to how we could move forward |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 22 Oct 2018 22:20 |
https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/living_relatives/thread/1374204 |
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Researching: |
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mgnv | Report | 31 Oct 2018 09:32 |
Just because the SS Martin van Buren was a Merchant Vessel doesn't preclude her being equipped with AA guns which would be manned by US Navy personnel. |