In this episode, blogger and author Peggy Reiff Miller joins me to discuss the history of the SS Battle Creek Victory, and other ships in its class.  She has spent twenty years calaloguing and researching the history of the Heffer Project and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) project to bring livestock over to Europe in the post years of World War II.  The SS Battle Creek Victory was delivered in the final days of WWII, and instead of serving as its intended use as a wartime cargo ship, it became part of the UNRRA efforts to bring livestock to war torn Europe.  

She has inteviewed hundreds of members of the Seagoing Cowboys who cared for the livestock on these voyages across the Atlantic to deliver over 300,000 animals to Europe.  It is a fascinating history.  

For more information on Peggy Reiff Miller and her book The Seagoing Cowboy, visit: https://seagoingcowboys.com/resources/books/picture-book/

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