Word: gripsholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pier F in Jersey City, the repatriated Americans got off the Red Cross exchange ship Gripsholm, and the community of fate dissolved into 1,223 individual owners of 1,223 individual ration books...
...they owed their country their lives and $610 travel expenses each. On Oct. 19, in the Portuguese-Indian harbor of Mormugão, they moved from the dreary Japanese freighter Teia Marti to the Gripsholm's marvels of tablecloth, roast turkey and freedom. In the opposite direction marched 1,330 Japanese repatriates, straight from U.S. camps, healthy-looking, well-dressed...
Ahead of the Gripsholm lies a long, weary journey. Not until Oct. 15 will she cast anchor in the Zuary River, inside the hilly coastline of Goa in Portuguese India...
...Gripsholm's returning passengers are lucky, they will be home - after "two years' imprisonment - by December. Of the 8,500 Americans interned in the Far East, only 1,250 can get aboard the ship...
...able-bodied must stay behind; the Gripsholm's passengers this time will be the aged, the ill, 300 children. They will require care: besides its load of toys for the children, the Gripsholm will carry four doctors, eight nurses...