'Portrait of America'. U.S. Trains American youth for merchant fleet.

'Portrait of America'. U.S. Trains American youth for merchant fleet. America's Statue of Liberty (left) in New York Harbour seems to salute this new U.S. Liberty ship manned with young Americans, who have just completed their merchant marine training under the U.S. Maritime Service program. With full hatches and a capacity deck load of supplies and munitions the vessels heads for the open sea to join the endless bridge of merchant ships carrying victory cargoos te United Nations war fronts throughout the world. U.S. Maritime Service training Centres turned out thousands of skilled sailors in 1942, 1943, and in the latter year produced an average of five crews of trained deamen every day to man America's vast 24,000,000 ton merchant Marine Fleet.