The History Guy remembers the evenThe History Guy remembers why we should not forget the wreck of one of the last Liberty Ships, the S.S. Richard Montgomery. The question of what to do about it, and its load of explosives, remains today.
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#ssrichardmontgomery #wwii #thehistoryguyts that occurred after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the actions of the Wake Island Defenders. It is history that deserves to be remembered. The History Guy uses images that are in the Public Domain. As photographs of actual events are often not available, I will sometimes use photographs of similar events or objects for illustration.
