A Fast Convoy

USS Allen (DD-66) escorts USS Leviathan (SP-1326), which is carrying United States troops to Europe through the U-boat infested Atlantic. Convoys such as this carried close to 2 million men to Europe before the Armistice of November 1918. During the course of the war, Leviathan alone transported over 98,000 troops.
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- World War I 1917-1918
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