File:RMS Mauretania docks at Newport News, Virginia (USA), on 16 September 1942 (138925880).jpg

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English: The British liner RMS Mauretania docks at a C&O pier in Newport News, Virginia (USA), on Wednesday, 16 September 1942, with 2,036 German prisoners-of-war aboard. Most of the prisoners were members of tank and airplane crews. Brought over on a British ship under Polish guards, they were landed at a United States port, guarded by American soldiers, and turned over to Canadian troops who placed them aboard a Canadian National Railway train and taken to an internment camp.
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This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 138925880.

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