Stone, Herb, Bio at 10th Amored Division Veterans Western Chapter, 30 January 2010: [4] "The division headed north to Camp Shanks in New Jersey and on Sept. 12, 1944 the 55th AEB departed the U.S. on a banana boat called the Sea Owl. Eleven days later we disembarked in Cherbourg, France"
1270thengineercombatbattalion.com
1270th Engineer Combat Battalion: Introduction (citing National Archives) [5]
57thfightergroup.org
History of the 57th Fighter Group [1] "Group departs Italian soil aboard USAT Sea Owl bound for the Pacific Theatre."
Roster of Armed Guards on U.S. ships in World War II [2] "USAT SEA OWL"
army.mil
history.army.mil
Charles, Roland W. (1947). Troopships of World War II(PDF). Washington: The Army Transportation Association. p. 261. LCCN47004779. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
books.google.com
Cullinan, George, Sea Grapes and Rattlesnakes, Bloomington, IN, 2004, p. 124 [3] "I signed on as Second Mate on July 27, 1944. We left the shipyard and took her on a shakedown cruise up the Atlantic coast to New York, then down to Newport News to load our -live cargo, which seemed like an entire army battalion. She was a beautiful ship on the outside, but below the main deck every inch of space was filled with triple-decker bunks. It was so crowded that many of the GIs took refuge on the main deck for much of the voyage. We were part of a convoy transporting a full Army division to Naples."
Sipes, Greg, The Transformation of the Soul, Bloomington, IN, 2008, p. 69. [7] "It's late December 1944. The small ship aboard which I am stationed is docked at Le Havre, France. We just unloaded the war materials carried from America to re-supply our forces during the "Battle of the Bulge," the battle that was the fiercest and one of the final battles of the war in the European theater of operations. The ship, the S.S. Sea Owl, relatively unarmed and with a crew of about forty-five, is now empty and preparing for the return trip to the United States. The word comes that we will be transporting fifteen hundred to two thousand German prisoners of war back to the States....The German soldiers come aboard in single file over the narrow gangplank."
dot.gov
vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov
Maritime Administration. "Sea Owl". Ship History Database Vessel Status Card. U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
War Department (1944). FM55-105 Water Transportation: Oceangoing Vessels(PDF). War Department Field Manual. Washington, DC: United States Department of War. pp. 25–34, Section 14, Allocated Vessels, Diagrams following p. 64. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
Charles, Roland W. (1947). Troopships of World War II(PDF). Washington: The Army Transportation Association. p. 261. LCCN47004779. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
mattsmusicpage.com
WWII SS Sea Owl troop ship paper for returning GIs 644 Tank Destroyer BN [6]
shipbuildinghistory.com
Colton, Tim (30 June 2020). "Ingalls Shipbuilding". ShipbuildingHistory. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
