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LC-Lot-4064-10: Merchant Ships: Merchant Marine Service, WWII

<p>Lot-4064-10: Merchant Ships: Merchant Marine Service, WWII.&nbsp;</p>
Caption: Merchant Ships: Merchant Marine Service, WWII. U.S. Trains American Youth for Merchant Fleet. America’s Statue of Liberty (left) in New York Harbor seems to salute this new U.S. “Liberty” ship manned with young Americans, who have just completed their merchant marine training under the U.S. Maritime Service program. With full hatches and a capacity deckload of supplies and munitions, the vessel heads for the open sea to join the endless bridge of merchant ships carrying victory cargoes to United Nations war fronts throughout the world. U.S. Maritime Service training centers turned out thousands of skilled sailors in 1942 and 1943 and in the latter year produced an average of five crews of trained seaman every day to man America’s vast 24,000,000, ton Merchant Marine fleet. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2017/07/13).
Accession #: LC-Lot-4064-10
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  • Theater of Operations--Atlantic
  • Boats-Ships--Civilian
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  • Photograph
Wars & Conflicts
  • World War II 1939-1945
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