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Title
D9622-3
Date(s)
- 1940-04-08 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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F. R. Clark, Captain Walter Arntz and M. K. Matthewson standing behind life preserver on deck of American freighter "Wildwood" on April 8, 1940. F. R. Clark, the president of the American Foreign Steamship Co., had sent word to the skipper Captain Walter Arntz to turn back mid Pacific and return to Tacoma to unload. Clark feared a British blockade. This marked the arrival of the war in the Pacific trade routes. (T. Times 4/8/1940, pg. 1)
Arntz, Walter; Clark, F.R.; Matthewson, M.K.; Life preservers; Cargo ships; Shipping--Tacoma--1940-1950;