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WWII museum opens on coast
Artifacts, exhibits recall home front war efforts
WWII Home Front Museum
The World War II Home Front Museum opened earlier this month on St. Simons Island, about 70 miles south of Savannah. (courtesy HOME FRONT MUSEUM)
SAVANNAH — One exhibit contains a hinged wooden box that held a bottle of champagne before it was smashed across the bow of a newly launched cargo ship built to carry supplies to American troops overseas. Another displays the ship's bell and a life ring from the S.S. Esso Baton Rouge, which sank off the Georgia coast in a deadly torpedo attack from a German U-boat.
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