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"Victory ships were a bigger, complicated ship."
The SS Red Oak Victory is an example of the enormous scale at work completed by ordinary men and women to help the war effort. Constructed in eighty-seven days, the SS Red Oak Victory was one of ten Victory ships commissioned by the United States Navy as ammunition and cargo carriers during World War II.
The SS Red Oak Victory was named for Red Oak, Iowa -- the town that lost more of its young me, per capita, than any other community in the United States. On a single day -- March 6, 1943 -- more than 100 telegrams arrived in Red Oak informing families throughout the community of soldiers missing in action. |