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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- WW2MM_170604_01.JPG: Maritime Experience
Sailing with the Victory Fleet
- WW2MM_170604_07.JPG: EC2 Liberty Ship
- WW2MM_170604_13.JPG: Stories of Sacrifice
Death at Sea
- WW2MM_170604_21.JPG: Without Warning
- WW2MM_170604_25.JPG: All Hands of Deck
- WW2MM_170604_31.JPG: Ships for Victory
- WW2MM_170604_33.JPG: How to Abandon Ship:
This US Maritime Service booklet advised mariners to resist panic and avoid mistakes. Poor training or ill-timed ship abandonment could subject mariners to enemy fire, sharks, exposure, and even death.
- WW2MM_170604_36.JPG: Merchant Marine
We Deliver the Goods
- WW2MM_170604_54.JPG: Mobilizing the Merchant Marine
War on the Waterfront
- WW2MM_170604_58.JPG: Longshoremen load supplies into a cargo hold. Each Liberty Ship could carry 9,000 tons of goods, including tanks, medical supplies, and foodstuffs.
- WW2MM_170604_63.JPG: 5,304 merchant vessels built by US shipyards during World War II
- WW2MM_170604_65.JPG: Transported 268,502,000 long tons of cargo during World War II
- WW2MM_170604_68.JPG: Peak force of nearly 250,000 merchant seamen
- WW2MM_170604_70.JPG: More than 200 interconnecting allied convoy routes
- WW2MM_170604_72.JPG: Convoys could have more than 160 allied ships
- WW2MM_170604_74.JPG: 1,554 merchant ships lost during World War II
- WW2MM_170604_75.JPG: 1:26 WWII casualty rate among merchant mariners
- WW2MM_170604_78.JPG: 1:56 WWII casualty rate among army, navy, marine corps, army air forces, and coast guard
- WW2MM_170604_81.JPG: 148 merchant marine Distinguished Service Medals awarded
- WW2MM_170604_86.JPG: Stories of Sacrifice
Death at Sea
- WW2MM_170604_92.JPG: American Liberty ships in convoy, entering the Mediterranean Sea after having steamed through the dangerous Atlantic Ocean and Strait of Gibraltar. Numerous ships were lost to torpedoing, while heading for Persian Gulf ports to deliver vital war supplies for Russia. July 19, 1944.
Painting by William Gordon Muller
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- Wikipedia Description: National World War II Museum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National World War II Museum, formerly known as the National D-Day Museum, is a museum located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, at the corner of Andrew Higgins and Magazine Street. It focuses on the United States contribution to victory in World War II, and the Battle of Normandy in particular. It has been designated by the U.S. Congress as "America's National World War II Museum".
Museum Description:
The museum opened its doors to the public on June 6, 2000, the 56th anniversary of D-Day. The museum has a large lobby where aircraft and other items are suspended from the ceiling. Visitors pay admission fees at the desk in the center of the lobby and then visitors' tickets are separated from the ticket stub by veterans of D-Day. Admission prices during the summer of 2005 were marked at $14, with discounts offered to children, students, military members and their families, veterans, and senior citizens. The building is several stories high; elevators are available but the stairs are more accessible and are quicker. Visitors begin their self-guided tour of the museum on the top floor and work their way down toward the ground floor. The museum goes in chronological order; that is, the top floor assesses the political, social, and economic conditions that led up to World War II and D-Day. For example, the museum compares the relative military strengths of major nations entering the war. Later visitors see a model of the beaches of Normandy with the relative positions of the number of aircraft and amphibious vehicles. However, the museum does not solely discuss the invasion; visitors may also view an electronic map of the Pacific Ocean that lights up to illustrate the Allied strategy of island hopping, culminating with nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
Visitors to the museum are encouraged to allocate roughly 2 1/2 to 3 hours to tour the museum. The museum also contains two auditoriums where educational videos are played as well as a gift shop.
Relation to New Orleans:
Some may wonder why the National World War II Museum is located in New Orleans, a city known for other tourism sites, but which is not usually associated with twentieth-century military history. The main reason the museum is located in New Orleans is because the city was where the "Higgins Boats" vital to D-Day operations were designed, built, and tested. The museum gives extensive coverage of the "LCVP" or "Higgins Boat" landing craft used in the invasion of Normandy and elsewhere. These landing craft were designed by Andrew Higgins of Louisiana and produced in New Orleans by Higgins Industries and its licensees. Furthermore, New Orleans was the home city of historian Stephen Ambrose, who spearheaded the effort to build such a museum.
The Museum closed for three months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans in 2005, re-opening on December 3 that year. A museum banner promoted this re-opening by proclaiming "We Have Returned," a phrase the banner juxtaposed with the classic World War II photograph of Gen. Douglas MacArthur striding through the surf on his return to the Philippines.
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