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THE UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE AT WAR:
report to the President by the War Shipping Administration, January 15, 1946.

The report's six-page overview, "The Winning Combination" is reproduced here in six graphic files, of about 250-375 K each. The pages include the original photographs printed in the report. Please be patient as each page loads. Use your browser's back button to return here to select subsequent pages.

Page 1 : Includes photo of the Normandy beachhead.Normandy beachhead

Page 2 : Includes photo of a Pacific convoy headed for Leyte.

Page 3 : With North Atlantic convoy photo.

Page 4 : Merchant ships supporting the liberation of the Aleutians.

Page 5 : Two photos, small craft shuttling between invasian armada and beachhead on Saipan, and Part of the price -- Liberty munitions ship takes death blow and Sicilian invasion.

Page 6 : Two photos, Liberty ships caught in the brunt of enemy attack, and Coast Guardsmen rescue two merchant seamen in the mid-Atlantic after their vessel was torpedoed.