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UPDATED: MILITARY🎖️MEDALS PROGRAM & CONGRESSIONAL GOLD -Effective Monday, Sep 8th, 2025, the medals program will be moved to the “Historian’s Office” at MARAD. The primary contact in that office is: Daniel Roberts - [email protected]
Information is now on our website to APPLY for a duplicate bronze medal of the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to WWII USMM Veterans living or deceased! Please carry on their legacy! maritime.dot.gov/outreach/el…
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Uncle Sam Needs You, Now! 🫵
1944 newsreel: Capt. Harry H. Dreany urgently calls for men aged 17 to 50 to join the U.S. Maritime Service. Training, loading and convoy footage from the ships that kept WWII supplied.
Would you have answered? 👇
#WW2 #History #MerchantMarine
#OTD 26 Oct 1942 the unescorted Anne Hutchinson was hit on the starboard side by two of four torpedoes from U-504 about 60 miles east of East London, South Africa. Crew 57 (3 dead and 54 survivors). uboat.net/allies/merchants/s…
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Some of those merchant ships were such bad rust buckets that just firing the main gun would break things near gun mount. Dad told me a few stories but I'm sure it had to effect their thinking every time they saw a tin can or flat top sail by. He was a Signalman and proud of it.
I never heard that before. They are forgotten by the country and I never understood that. There is a great website started by a WWII Navy Armed Guard. Armed Guard and U.S. Merchant Marine | World War II VeteransArmed Guard and U.S. Merchant Marine | World War II Veterans share.google/VCtQt3Q2fZBdXM9…
That's certainly a different way of framing the situation. My dad was in the "Armed Guard", an almost forgotten branch of the @USNavy and he was blown out of the water twice in WWII while on merchant ships. The rest of the Navy just sneered at the Armed Guard as not real Navy.
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“A seafarer who sails into a war zone under state orders, on a ship that the enemy is trying to sink, has participated in that war. However, most countries still do not recognize that person as a veteran.” 🎯
Original SS Cody Victory transferred to Peru and renamed Yavari. Photo made in Panama Canal in September 1948. Caught fire at Los Angeles in 1968 and sold to shipbreakers in 1969 but sank in March 1969 - Provided by Chuck Durand. #VictoryShip
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Wife's Father (RIP) has Mariner's ID from Pacific Theater Service. Thanks for the Medal Info. Will pass it on to Our Daughter (His Grand Daughter.) when/If Awarded.
I was a USMMA Midshipman, then a Ship's Engineer during Vietnam Years, 1973-1976. Was in Zone multiple times..
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My Pops was a Sailer ; a Merchant Marine during WWII ; born in 1911 , oldest of 9 siblings, lived through the Great Depression , hitchhiked all over the country and sent 50% of his wages home to his siblings. During World War II, one of his ships was torpedo three times on the starboard side and did not sink. He was evacuated ship was towed to Egypt and put on dry dock. I didn’t fall far from the Tree
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xitter.cf/USMMWWII/status/211377… Sadly, scenes like this were all too common in 1942 of the US coasts. The U-boat war was taking a terrible toll on US shipping, and this is an example of just one of those ships lost.
The SS Tiger (sinking) and under tow by the tug Relief after being torpedoed by U-754 on April 1, 1942. Under tow near Cape Henry, VA. Tiger, originally built as a freighter, was torpedoed by the German submarine U-754 just after midnight on 1 April 1942, after she had reduced speed to pick up a pilot before entering Chesapeake Bay. She sank in shallow water during salvage efforts on 2 April 1942. shipscribe.com/usnaux/ww1/sh…
Former SS Netherlands Victory, renamed Pelican State, discharging nitrate at Nagoya, Japan, October 1949 - Provided by Chuck Durand. #VictoryShip
The SS Tiger (sinking) and under tow by the tug Relief after being torpedoed by U-754 on April 1, 1942. Under tow near Cape Henry, VA. Tiger, originally built as a freighter, was torpedoed by the German submarine U-754 just after midnight on 1 April 1942, after she had reduced speed to pick up a pilot before entering Chesapeake Bay. She sank in shallow water during salvage efforts on 2 April 1942. shipscribe.com/usnaux/ww1/sh…
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I’m gearing up for my last ship launch at NASSCO this weekend. The past 3 years has been a great ride, and I’m thankful to the shipyard for all the things I’ve learned here and the great people I’ve gotten to work with!
I can’t think of a better way to end this chapter than helping send USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg down the ways!
More details next week on what’s coming next.
Question for the experts! @mercoglianos @johnkonrad
#OTD 23 Oct 1942 the unescorted Reuben Tipton was torpedoed by U-129 about 400 miles northeast of Trinidad. As the ship settled by the head the master noticed that she could be saved, restarted the engines and proceeded towards the coast. Crew 54 (3 dead and 51 survivors). uboat.net/allies/merchants/s…
Stern section of the tanker MS Brilliant sinking on January 24, 1943 off Newfoundland. 44 men adrift on this section for 5 days after she broke in two on January 20, 1943. aukevisser.nl/mobil/id679.ht…
Liberty Ship SS Charles Morgan with stern resting on the bottom off Utah Beach, Normandy, France. On June 10, 1944 while at anchor in thirty-three feet of water off Utah beach at Normandy she was hit by aircraft bombs. At 500-lb bomb hit the center of No. 5 hatch, blowing off the hatch covers and strongbacks and buckled and ruptured the main deck. Read more at wrecksite: wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?2617
"Aurora" ex. "Miller County" damaged after hit by three torpedoes and subjected to a severe shelling. On May 16, 1942, she was waylaid by two German U-boats, hit by three torpedoes and subjected to a severe shelling. At the time she was 40 miles off the mouth of the Mississippi River. She was repaired in Louisiana and put back in service. aukevisser.nl/mobil/id678.ht…
