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Photographer: courtesy of Galen Biery Papers, Western Washington University
Caption: Marker inset: wooden-hulled ships
Additional Description: Wooden-hulled ships were valued because there was as shortage of metal during WW II, and wood reduced the potential of detonating magnetized mines attracted to metal ships.
Submitted: August 9, 2021, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p602952
File Size: 0.207 Megabytes

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