SS Dorchester
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Dorchester was a coastal passenger steamship requisitioned and operated by the War Shipping Administration in January 1942 for wartime use as a troop ship allocated to United States Army requirements.
SS Dorchester
Coast Guard cutter Escanaba rescues Dorchester survivors, February 3, 1943.
The Immortal ChaplainsIssue of 1948
Jack Kerouac
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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
SS Dorchester
…rule in the same way as later did stamps honoring Neil Armstrong in 1969 and Buzz Aldrin in 1994, both of whom were still alive. The American writer Jack Kerouac served on Dorchester, where he befriended an African-American cook named "Old Glory," who died when the ship sank after the torpedo attack. Kerouac…
Jack Kerouac's birthplace, 9 Lupine Road, 2nd floor, West Centralville, Lowell, Massachusetts
His third of several homes growing up in the West Centralville section of Lowell
Jack Kerouac lived with his parents for a time above a corner drug store in Ozone Park (now a flower shop), while writing some of his earliest work. There was no phone in the apartment and they would take calls from a public phone in the drug store downstairs. Kerouac would bring a kettle to the bar across the street to be filled with beer for family meals.
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