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 :Port San Luis, Calif.,
 * December 26, 1941

Deputy Collector of Customs,
 * San Pedro, California.

Sir:


 * Please find here enclosed a certified copy of Temporary Register No. 8-F, issued to the American steam tanker Montebello on December 5, 1941, and under which this vessel was operateing [sic] at the time of its attack and destruction.


 * This office has been advised that the report of casualty will be filed at the vessels [sic] home port, Los Angeles, by the Union Oil Company of California.

Respectfully,

[Stamp E.F. JAMES] E.F. James,

Deputy Collector in Charge,

enc.