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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
Last week a crew of six San Francisco longshoremen finished the nine-day job of unloading 7,000 tons of stinking, oil-laden copra from the Liberty ship Silvana.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pier 45 is a concrete pier with a mix of seafood and maritime businesses and tourist attractions, including the SS Jeremiah O’Brien, a historic World War II liberty ship.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2020
One exhibit at the museum allows visitors to virtually construct a liberty ship and follow its voyage across the Atlantic.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 26, 2018
"They had to pull him back onto the liberty ship."
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2014
That night we boarded a liberty ship, Empire Javelin, which was to carry us across the Channel to Normandy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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