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MMWWII @USMMWWII Nov 24, 2025

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 - Daniel.roberts@dot.gov

MMWWII @USMMWWII Jul 17, 2023

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/eligi…

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Former SS Netherlands Victory, renamed Pelican State, discharging nitrate at Nagoya, Japan, October 1949 - Provided by Chuck Durand. #VictoryShip

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#OTD 10 Nov 1975- 51 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior. The Edmund Fitzgerald was loaded with 26,000 tons of pellets containing iron ore when it sank. To slip through the narrow Soo Locks, such ships are only 75 feet wide. npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-…

www.npr.org 50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.

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These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of Leedstown after major subsequent modifications. “One of the three handsome sisters of S.S. Santa Lucia, which became USS Leedstown (AP-73) in 1942.She is probably shown transiting the Panama Canal during the 1930s.“shipscribe.com/usnaux/AP/AP73…

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#OTD 9 Nov 1942 USS Leedstown (AP 73) built as a steam passenger ship Santa Lucia for Grace SS Co. and transferred to the US War Shipping Administration (WSA) as a transport ship. She was hit on the starboard side near Algiers, by two torpedoes and was abandoned after ten minutes. The commander and 103 survivors were picked up. Crew 163 (59 dead and 104 survivors). uboat.net/allies/merchan…