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My high school science teacher, who staffed a gun tub on a Liberty ship in World War II, once mistook Venus for a highflying enemy airplane and tried to shoot it down.
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2023
“The last Liberty ship I got off, I swore to God I would never get on another one,” the 93-year-old U.S.
From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2018
“They assigned me to another ship because there were a couple holes in the first ship,” he said of the Liberty ship he was first stationed on.
From Washington Times • Jun. 3, 2017
At Pier 42, the Liberty ship John W. Brown was still on duty.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2016
The Maritime Commission gave a contract to Henry J. Kaiser, who had never built anything more elaborate than a Liberty ship, and the Navy was told to keep hands off.
From Time Magazine Archive
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