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| Keywords: Lot-9432-7: Ships Will Strike First. The speed with which America is arming her merchant ships is assurance that she not only will continue to get war materials through to the Allies, but that supplies will flow in increasingly large quantities. U.S. cargo ships are being armed with machine-gun turrets to fight off aircraft and with four and five-inch guns which will enable them to hit first when U-boats are sighted. This series of pictures, made at an Atlantic Coast U.S. port, shows how the arming program is being pushed at top speed. Shown: Note only will the ships be armed against submarine and aircraft, but they will have anti-mine equipment. Workers here install degaussing cables, which neutralize the magnetism of a ship’s hull, so that magnetic mines are not affected by the passage of the ship through a mine field. Office of War Information Photograph, 9-15 April 1942. Original photograph is small. (2015/12/18). Lot-9432-7: Ships Will Strike First. The speed with which America is arming her merchant ships is assurance that she not only will continue to get war materials through to the Allies, but that supplies will flow in increasingly large quantities. U.S. cargo ships are being armed with machine-gun turrets to fight off aircraft and with four and five-inch guns which will enable them to hit first when U-boats are sighted. This series of pictures, made at an Atlantic Coast U.S. port, shows how the arming program is being pushed at top speed. Shown: Note only will the ships be armed against submarine and aircraft, but they will have anti-mine equipment. Workers here install degaussing cables, which neutralize the magnetism of a ship’s hull, so that magnetic mines are not affected by the passage of the ship through a mine field. Office of War Information Photograph, 9-15 April 1942. Original photograph is small. (2015/12/18). | ||||
