AT SEA IN A TYPHOON ON A UNITED STATES ARMY TRANSPORT

_Story of a Voyage in the China Sea_

_Told by (name suppressed), a United States Army Officer_

This is the private letter of a captain of the ---- Infantry,

United States Army. It was written at sea on the transport

_Thomas_, somewhere between Keelung and Nagasaki in the China Sea.

The army officer, whose name is withheld by request, tells how

the transport, with the whole ---- Infantry, officers with their

families, and civilians, numbering 2,000, passed through a typhoon

in a night of terror, paying high tribute to the discipline of

the soldiers. It is one of those human documents that give a deep

insight into the adventurous experiences of the American Army in

the days of World War.

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