Liberty_ship_Portland.jpg

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English: Ships launched at South Portland, Maine. Some of the five British cargo ships built under lend-lease at a large New England yard and launched along with two destroyers and one liberty ship at a record-breaking mass launching on August 16, 1942
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Author Freeman, Albert
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("Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.")

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