[Bull Snipe]

Should be 1944, not 1844.

[Roccus]

I’ve seen the SS John W. Brown a few times docked in the Hudson

http://www.liberty-ship.com/

To my understanding, she and the SS Jeremiah O’Brien are the last two operational Liberty ships

http://www.ssjeremiahobrien.com/

[Bringbackthedraft]

I remember that in the 70’s there was a fleet of them near Peekskill NY on the Hudson. They were sold as scrap metal.

[Fiji Hill]

On this day in 1941, the University of Southern California kicked off its football season by beating the Oregon State College Beavers 12-7 in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Beavers would go on to win the 1942 Rose Bowl Game, played at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, due to the perceived vulnerability of the West Coast to a Japanese attack.

he Occidental College Tigers were off after having blanked the Redlands Bull Dogs 13-0 two weeks earlier. Next up would be the Cal Tech Beavers, whom the Tigers would shut out 25-0.

UCLA, whose team included future baseball great Jackie Robinson, would start its season a week later, beating Washington State 7-6.

Blue Champagne by Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra was the number one song on this day (I've never drunk or even seen blue champagne). However, Freddy Martin's rendition of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #1 was quickly moving up and would be #1 on some charts the day the war began.

[colorado tanker]

A lot of brave merchant mariners sailed those ships. Slow, defenseless and vulnerable to submarine attack.