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The menu of the Christmas Dinner aboard the USS Montour from Dec 25, 1945
The ship was a was a Bayfield-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. Name after a county in Pennsylvania.
Decommissioned in 1946, lived until 1977 when it was finally scrapped.
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Artist rendering of future submarine warfare, where subs crawl out of the water and attack helpless lighthouses.
From the Feb 1924 issue of “The New Science and Invention in Pictures”
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Variation of the “Loose Lips Sink Ships” it’s “Zip Your Lip – Save A Ship”
Common newspaper/ magazine ad from World War II, this one is from 1944.
If World War II was happening today, the schedules of the Victory ships would be all over the internet… Idol talk in a restaurant wouldn’t even be an issue..
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1890 Drawing of the United States Navy Cruiser – “Philadelphia”. Drawn by F Cresson Schell.
Built by the William Cramp & Sons Ship-Building Company.
She was known as a “protected cruiser”. However, she had no protection to her vitals save that given by an armored deck and only gun shields to protect her crew.
The engines were expansion, driving twin screws. During trials she did 19.76 knots.
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