This bonus episode is an historic overview of The Cunard Line's RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Queen Mary. The Silver King, Second Lieutenant Stanley L. Silverfield, rode this ocean liner to his war in late September 1944. His POE was New York harbor's Brooklyn Terminal. Stanley wrote effusively about this Atlantic crossing. He enjoyed the simple pleasures of life as an Air Corps officer. Cunard converted the RMS QM to a troop transport ship after the Second World War began in September 1939. The ocean liner sailed to Australia during the spring of 1940 for its conversion and began transporting Australian and New Zealand troops to England for the allied invasion operations.
