[FAREWELL DINNER & DAILY MENUS ABOARD USNS ELTINGE] Military Sea Transportation Service – Suggested menu for weight reducing. USNS Eltinge (T-AP 154) [2 menus] Salon and crew mess, Tuesday, August 12 & 13 1958. Farewell dinner = Veda yemegi.

N. A.

N. p., 1958.

Two typescript menus with lithographed title. 20x26,5 cm. Bilingual in English and Turkish. Printed and scripted one side only. A vertical fold line across the centre, else very good.

Exceptionally rare two menus featuring the farewell dinner held aboard the USNS Eltinge likely for the last remaining members of the Turkish Brigade who fought alongside NATO in the Korean War, along with daily menus listing breakfast, lunch, and dinner served during their return voyage to Turkey.

USS General LeRoy Eltinge (AP-154) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship used by the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was named in honour of U.S. Army General LeRoy Eltinge. For more than a year she transported troops from Seattle and San Francisco to Japan and Korea after 1950. From May to September 1957, she made UN runs to Turkey and Thailand, and she continued to operate in support of UN programs through 1958-59.