75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: Historic photo: War ties two biggest liners up in New York. http://bit.ly/1txROYL

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: Historic photo: War ties two biggest liners up in New York. http://bit.ly/1txROYL

"This is a historic photograph - the kind of picture which will bring to future generations the feeling and reality of the War of 1939.

"It was taken for LIFE at the end of September with the color camera pointing across New York's West Side Express Highway toward the North River docks where three great ocean liners lay. Never before had the Normandie (left), Queen Mary and Aquitania (three stacks at far right) been in harbor at the same time. What brought these sea giants together was the war in Europe and the fear of German U-boats..."

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