Cap met his future bride, Jane, on a troopship to Australia and, against Army regulations, married her soon after they got ashore.

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Britain, under Margaret Thatcher, buckled on its rusty armour and dispatched every warship, troopship and rowing boat available to the Falklands, 13, 000km away.

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Or was it when he slept in the top bunk of a World War II troopship that had asbestos-clad pipes rattling 2 feet above his head?

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In 1939, the U.S. Navy seized the Normandie to convert it into the troopship, the USS Lafayette, and the piano was sold along with the rest of the ship's contents in a series of auctions.

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In his filing with the UNR trust, he claimed he handled "Unibestos insulation" at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard at a time when he said he was a rifleman who merely passed through the yard to board a troopship.

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