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| unidentified WWI dazzle-painted ship (AI color), c1918 |
The snub nosed transport sludges slowly through the Narrows in the rain. Sergeant-Major O'Keefe and Private First Class Dutch Robertson stand in the lee of the deckhouse looking at the liners at anchor in quarantine and the low wharf cluttered shores.
"Look some of em still got their warpaint—Shippin Board boats.... Not worth the powder to blow em up."
"The hell they aint," said Joey O'Keefe vaguely. "Gosh little old New York's goin to look good to me.…"
"Me too Sarge, rain or shine I dont care."
They are passing close to a mass of steamers anchored in a block, some of them listing to one side or the other, lanky ships with short funnels, stumpy ships with tall funnels red with rust, some of them striped and splashed and dotted with putty color and blue and green of camouflage paint…
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