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The United States Maritime Service Training Station at Sheepshead Bay was opened on September 1, 1942. It closed on February 28, 1954. [1] The station was the largest maritime training station during World War II and was equipped to train 30,000 merchant seamen each year.
Under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, the United States Maritime Commission was established as an independent agency to direct and control all phases of overseas shipping and shipbuilding. It became apparent immediately when this Nation entered the war that a special agency to deal with the operational problems peculiar to war was necessary to ...
Navy – Merchant Marine Memorial in Washington, D.C. Action in the North Atlantic 1943 movie with Humphrey Bogart. The Rebels of PT-218, (The Rebels of World War II) a 2021 movie about the a Liberty ship that became a war ship. [45] The Men Who Sailed the Liberty Ships Film of Veterans of the American merchant marine in World War II tell their ...
1. The British Merchant Navy of World War II, previously known as the "Merchant Service" or "Mercantile Marine" comprised the merchant shipping registered in Great Britain and independently operated by British commercial shipping companies. Those vessels carried cargo to and from the country and those of the Commonwealth to sustain its war effort.
Joint Army–Navy Assessment Committee (JANAC) was a United States inter-service agency set up to analyze and assess Japanese naval and merchant marine shipping losses caused by U.S. and Allied forces during World War II.
Korean Service Medal is a civil decoration awarded for Merchant Marine service during the Korean War between June 30, 1950, and September 30, 1953, in waters adjacent to Korea. Vietnam Service Medal is a civil decoration awarded to officers and men for service aboard merchant vessels flying the American flag in Vietnam waters between July 4 ...
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to foster the development and encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine. Prior to the passage of the act, the U.S.'s merchant fleet was primarily made up of ships which had been built as part of the Emergency Fleet Program at the end of World War I. Because of technological ...
The United States Submarine Veterans Inc. is primarily a community of submariners, but has some information on submarines "on eternal patrol;" i.e., lost.; Destroyers OnLine - to collect, preserve and display historical information about the ships, their crews and the U.S. Navy. Includes destroyers, escorts, and frigates; destroyer classes; alphabetical list; links; glossary, bibliography.