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Red Oak (Iowa) Victory ship 80th anniversary tonight

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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/red-oak-victory-80th-anniversary-fundraiser-tickets-1023011524007

We go there quite often for events but tonight should be special. Good food, live swing music and lots of wine and spirits.

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Named after Red Oak Iowa.

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SS Red Oak Victory is the last surviving vessel of 747 ships of all types built at the Richmond Kaiser Shipyards during World War II. She continues to serve today as a museum ship and as a monument to the thousands of men and women who worked hard to build these ships in a time of national crisis.

The SS Red Oak Victory is also one of the last surviving World War II Victory ships. These ships, along with their cousins the Liberty ships, were built on an emergency basis to carry vital supplies and troops to all theaters of war. The Victory ships remain today as a symbol of the national resolve and industrial might that won the Second World War."

Link to their web site. https://redoakvictory.us
 
The famous planes, tanks, aircraft carriers, Jeeps, etc get most all the equipment credit and glory for winning WWII - but these ships will never get their due credit for enabling the Allies to win the war.

Shipping, after all, isn't and wasn't sexy. But not one single allied victory in any theater would have been possible without it.
 
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