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Please see enhanced notation below for Victory at Sea episodes highlighting role of U.S. Merchant Marine.
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Tell America Maritime Policy 2007 Overview

U.S. – FLAG MERCHANT MARINE
A strong U.S.-Flag Merchant Marine is essential to support U.S national defense and economic security interests in the 21st century. American sea power refers to the nation’s ability to use the seas for its own purposes. In peacetime, 95 percent of trade tonnage is waterborne. Yet, U.S.-flag ships carry only 2.7 percent of that trade.
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National Maritime Day - May 21-22, 2007
 
Memorial Day at Vietnam Memorial
May 28, 2007
 
U.S. Merchant Marine & Port Security - June 8, 2007
 
USMMA Graduation w/ Sen. John McCain - June 18, 2007
 
USMMA-AF Dinner on T/V Kings Pointer - June 20, 2007
VICTORY AT SEA - EPISODE SELECTION

Victory At Sea - Episode 1
Design for War - German U-boats blockade England, sinking British, Canadian and US merchant ships that brave the hostile to supply the beleaguered island nation. America answers the call for help by supplying warships with the Lend Lease Act and begins a massive shipbuilding program and hasty industrial preparation for our entry into the war.


Victory At Sea - Episode 2
The Pacific Boils Over


Victory At Sea - Episode 3
Sealing the Breach - President Franklin Roosevelt calls Japan’s surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor a “day that will live in infamy”. America reacts by increasing our build up of war equipment. The Merchant Marine plays an important role in transporting war supplies across the Atlantic at a heavy cost in ships sunk and mariners lost to German U-Boat torpedoes.


Victory At Sea - Episode 4
Midway is East


Victory At Sea - Episode 5
Mediterranean Mosaic


Victory At Sea - Episode 6
Guadalcanal


Victory At Sea - Episode 7
Rings around Rabaul


Victory At Sea - Episode 8
Mare Nostrum


Victory At Sea - Episode 9
Sea and Sand


Victory At Sea - Episode 10
Beneath the Southern Cross


Victory At Sea - Episode 11
Magnetic North - The Allies engage in arctic campaigns around the world battling the elements as well as the enemy. Allied merchant mariners suffer heavy casualties from German warships and aircraft as well as severe arctic weather on the horrendous Mermansk run to supply besieged Russia. Allied armed forces fight the German Army in Scandinavia and battle Japan to retake occupied Alaskan territory.


Victory At Sea - Episode 12
Conquest of Micronesia


Victory At Sea - Episode 13
Melanesian Nightmare


Victory At Sea - Episode 14
Roman Renaissance


Victory At Sea - Episode 15
D-Day


Victory At Sea - Episode 16
Killers and the Killed


Victory At Sea - Episode 17
The Turkey Shoot


Victory At Sea - Episode 18
Two If By Sea


Victory At Sea - Episode 19
Battle for Leyte Gulf


Victory At Sea - Episode 20
Return of the Allies


Victory At Sea - Episode 21
Full Fathom Five


Victory At Sea - Episode 22
The Fate of Europe


Victory At Sea - Episode 23
Target Suribachi


Victory At Sea - Episode 24
The Road to Mandaley


Victory At Sea - Episode 25
Suicide for Glory


Victory At Sea - Episode 26
Design for Peace