“A LADY FIGHTS BACK“ FIRE DESTROYS FAMED OCEAN LINER SS NORMANDIE DOCUMENTARY NEW YORK 79004b

Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. Subscribe and consider becoming a channel member Dating to 1944, this episode in the long-running series “John Nesbitt’s Passing Parade“ was included in the “G.I. Movie Weekly“ shown to American troops in WWII. This episode is titled “A Lady Fights Back.“ It tells the story of the famed ocean liner SS Normandie, which caught fire while under modification in New York during WWII. The streamline moderne designed SS Normandie was launched in 1935 and served with the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT). At the time she was the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat, crossing the Atlantic in a record made 139 westbound transatlantic crossings from her home port of Le Havre to New York City, but was seized by the U.S. government after the fall of France. Renamed USS L