WWII & NYC exhibit includes LI contribution
Photo credit: New-York Historical Society | Beginning in June 1942, at the invitation of the board, the New-York Historical Society's two large first-floor exhibition galleries were converted into surgical dressing stations by the American Red Cross. (Sept. 21, 2012)
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Exhibit on wartime NYC
Soldiers and sailors swarmed New York City. Hundreds of merchant ships transporting supplies for the fight in Europe crowded New York Harbor. The bright lights of the big city were dimmed so they would not silhouette vessels offshore being hunted by German U-boats.
From 1941 to 1945, the signs of wartime were nearly everywhere in New York and the surrounding area, including Long Island, as...
