1,800 Million Pounds of Gold Sails From the River Clyde

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German aircraft bomb a creamery at Campile, Co. Wexford; three women are killed

1,800 million pounds of Gold sails from the River Clyde

As German forces overran Europe in the spring of 1940, massive gold shipments began arriving in the United States from England, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Norway for safekeeping.