Past Features
Fur Vest Project for WWII Seamen (WWII)
August Wallenhaupt: Sole Survivor of SS Puerto Rican (WWII)
Troops and Cargo Transported During World War II under U.S. Army Control (WWII)
President Bush Speech at USMM Academy Commencement (2006)
Ten minutes to abandon ship with 1,600 Men, Women, Children Aboard! (WWII)
Mariners and ships in Hurricane Katrina
Jack Lawrence and Captain Arthur Moore Receive Honorary Degrees from Merchant Marine Academy
SS President Harrison: Master's Report of Her Capture (WWII)
116 Posters from World War I and World War II
The Gallant Liberty Ship SS Stephen Hopkins Sinks a German Raider (WWII)
American Merchant Marine on D-Day at Normandy: 60th Anniversary
What were the Most Dangerous Positions for Mariners during WWII?
Where Deceased Mariners Made their Homes
Displaced Person Transports: Cargo of Hope
U.S. Merchant Marine Ships Rescue Air Crews During WWII
General Quarters! All Hands to Battle Stations! Naval Armed Guard and Mariners worked as a team manning the guns during World War II
Stanvac Calcutta: the Gallant Ship that Fought a German Raider (WWII)
SS Seatrain Texas Carries Sherman Tanks for Battle of El Alamein (WWII)
Merchant Mariners at Milag Nord Prisoner of War Camp in Germany during World War II Repatriation, U.S. Regulations for mariner POW conduct, Description of camps prepared by Military Intelligence Service (WWII)
History of Military Sea Transportation Service and Military Sealift Command
by Salvatore R. Mercogliano (1949 to present)Merchant Marine Stamp of 1946, Steamship Stamp of 1944, and First Day Covers
Jay G. Lopez, Radio Operator, Four Star Seaman (Torpedoed Four Times during WWII)
D-Day 1944 and Why They Owe Me a Trip on the Queen Mary by Richard R. Powers (WWII)
Capture & Release of SS Mayaguez by Khmer Rouge, May '75 (Vietnam War)
Ships and Men of the Army Transport Service by Charles Dana Gibson
The Sinking of the SS Lehigh on October 19, 1941 by Radio Operator Sam Hakam with dramatic photos by Hakam (WWII)
Citations for Distinguished Service Medal During WWII 140 Mariners honored during WWII for "Heroism Beyond the Call of Duty" (WWII)
The Mystery of the SS Oklahoma and her unnamed dead -- killed in 1942 -- solved in 1999
(Courtesy of The Atlanta-Journal Constitution) (WWII)Operation Pedestal and SS Ohio save Malta - the Convoy must get through at all costs (WWII)
Phoenixes, Mulberries, Whales, Lobnitzes, and Corncobs at Normandy - and the role of Tugboats (WWII)
Dreadful Saga of the MV American Leader crew-- prisoners of Germans and Japanese, torpedoed by Americans and British (WWII)
Heroic Clara Main among first Merchant Marine POW's captured by the Japanese on December 7, 1941 (WWII)
SS Black Point -- Last U-boat victim (WWII)
Port Chicago Disaster -- WWII government cover-up (WWII)
Red Oak Victory After 54 years and three wars the Red Oak Victory returns home. . .
The Story of the SS Robert E. Peary -- Built in record time! (WWII)
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