This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McConnell Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kVJ.2ACIB/1.39.46 Message Board Post: I just notice your Posting of Feb 2000 mentioning the ship SS Ancon. Was it a banana ship that was later converted to U. S. Navy use as a flag ship? During World War II the Ancon served as one of the two flag ships during the Normandy invasion and many of the other invasions. It seems likely that the World War II ship would not be that old, but it was converted from a banana ship. My father, Russell Hicks McConnell, was Chaplain of that ship in World War II.