Remembering the LAGUARDIA

摘要

T THE MUSEUM OF THE MERCHANT MARINE AT KINGS POINT, New York, amidst a fine ship model collection, there's a very fine, highly detailed version of a 1944-built, P2-class troopship in a peacetime passenger configuration. The model is painted in an unidentifiable scheme because the U.S. Maritime Commission was promoting the potential conversion of such ships for commercial use as passenger liners in 1946-47. It was just after World War II ended and the mood was quite optimistic, with the government thinking that the United Stales lines and others would be quite willing to take on such converted troop transports.