USAT Cuba

History
USAT Cuba
United States
General characteristics
Armament:	1 x 5"/51 caliber gun mount 2 × 3"/50 caliber gun mounts 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon AA gun mounts

USAT Cuba was a US army transport ship during World War II. She spent the majority of the war on trips between North, Latin and South America, transporting citizens of Axis nations to the United States for internment.^[1] One such trip in 1944 saw the transport of 540 German and Japanese internees.^[2]

References

↑ Russell Estlack, Shattered Lives, Shattered Dreams: The Disrupted Lives of Families in America's Internment Camps, p. 44-45
↑ Department of State Special Agent R. L. Bannerman, Arrival at New Orleans of 540 German and Japanese Internees

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