Lorain High School - Scimitar Yearbook (Lorain, OH)

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tus by jimmy Evans, Rudy Moc Studio 'A' Minesweepers-yes-many of these fighting ships for a fighting navy. You need steel for war . . . you need ore for steel . . . ships to deliver that ore . . . We build the largest ore carriers on the lakes to feed the hungry mills of Lorain . . . Mills which spit steel day and night, steel to rip deep into the vitals of our enemies. Submarine net layers . . . Corvettes . . . Yesterday . . . Ships for War . . . Today . . . Ships for Victory . . . Tomorrow . . . Ships for Peace . . . On the Seven Seas Lorain-built ships stalk the enemy . . . On to England . . . On to China . . . On to Australia . . . ANCHORS, AWEIGH! . . . Mrs. Geraldine Donohue, a Ship- yard nurse and wife of Corporal Donohue, took a smash at the Axis. Nine

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.E hid, agAZ,'7w.f 'A' Out of retirement came Lofty Henderson's father-yes, and thous- ands of Lorain fathers, men of peace . . . building ships of war, fight- ing ships for fighting men . . . The largest freshwater shipyards in the world answered the call for more ships for our fighting men . . . They built ships . . . they launched ships . . . they built still more ships . . . Lorain sent Uncle Sam more men than any other town of our size you can name. The call was re-echoed . . . Ships for victory! The reverber- ating Crescendo of ships plunging into the waters . . . waters which have floated the men-of-war for other conflicts . . . waters which saw tradition broken . . . WAACs and SPARS . . . the first women naval officers-launching ships . . . Women helped build them . . . women launched them. Publicity . . . sure . . . the other yards get it . . . maybe you haven't heard much of Lorain and its ships but we are here . . . Everytime there are ships to be built . . . or a war to be won . . . they call on us . . . We're ready . . . we're willing . . . we're able. Jfme'4 Pano! of fl' . . .

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