October 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt, in the rear seat of the car, stopped at the Groton Ct Plant of the Electric Boat Co.
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Friday, September 04, 2020
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Now this is the kind if research that I enjoy.
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It is quite a story, they arrived at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 5th 1941, and shot down a Japanese Bomber during the attack. 27 ships sunk, over 75,000 tons of shipping sunk. I wonder why Mr. Roosevelt is present, this looks more like a commissioning ceremony, but there's no mention of Roosevelt attending the commissioning or the launch. In October 1940 Tautog was a month into a shakedown cruise in the Caribbean Sea. So this is either her time of training at Long Island Sound (which would make sense for the President to be there) or its after she returned to New London Conn. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteFDR in his Rollston (Rollson) bodied 1939 Packard 12 parade car. This is the first Presidential vehicle with armored glass windows. Kind of a moot point on a cabrio, but they were different times. Soon enough he'd be riding to Congress in Al Capone's armored 1928 Town car.
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