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Heaven, Hell or Hoboken: the port two million soldiers left from
1917
Hoboken, New Jersey
Hamburg America and North German Lloyd ran their American operations from the Hoboken piers, so when the United States declared war in April 1917 the Army seized the docks outright and made them its main port of embarkation. Around two million servicemen shipped out from here on 936 crossings. The federal government also closed most of the town's bars and beer gardens and interned German nationals who had not naturalised, in a city that was substantially German.
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