Rare Antique American WWI Navy Sailors USS Birmingham Real Photo Postcard RPPC for Sale

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Rare Antique American WWI Navy Sailors USS Birmingham Real Photo Postcard RPPC For Sale

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Rare Antique American WWI Navy Sailors USS Birmingham Real Photo Postcard RPPC:
$42.49

UP FOR SALE:Rare Antique American WWI Navy Sailors USS Birmingham Real Photo Postcard! RPPC!
Fantastic Antique American World War I Real Photograph Postcard!
Three US Navy Sailors!
Written on back:
\"Micky, Lord, and Mack.Taken in Plymouth England. Year of 1918.with the good ship Birmingham in foreign waters\"
INFO:
\"USS Birmingham (CS-2/CL-2), named for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, was a Chester-class scout cruiser, reclassified a light cruiser in 1920. Entering service in 1908, the ship became known for the first airplane takeoff from a ship in history in 1910. During World War I, Birmingham escorted convoys across the Atlantic. The cruiser was decommissioned in 1923 and sold for scrap in 1930.
Following American entrance into World War I, Birmingham patrolled along the northeast U.S. coast until 14 June 1917, when she sailed from New York as part of the escort for the first US troop convoy to France. After returning to New York she was fitted for service in Europe and in August reported to Gibraltar as flagship for Rear Admiral A. P. Niblack, Commander, US Forces Gibraltar. She escorted convoys between Gibraltar, the British Isles, and France until the Armistice. After a short cruise in the eastern Mediterranean, she returned to the United States in January 1919.
From July 1919 to May 1922, she was based at San Diego, California, as flagship of Destroyer Squadrons, Pacific Fleet, and then moved to Balboa, Canal Zone as flagship of the Special Service Squadron. After cruising along the Central American and northern South American coast, she returned to Philadelphia and was decommissioned there on 1 December 1923, being sold for scrap on 13 May 1930.\" (WIKI)
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A great piece of 20th Century American Photography Ephemera!
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