





The Williamsport Aircraft Spotter's in front of the small shed erected at the Potomac River Bridge at Williamsport.









If the enemy attacked Williamsport, the town was ready. After the 1941 death of Congressman William D. Byron in an airplane crash, his 20-room mansion along Potomac Street in Williamsport was purchased by Dr. Paul Nelson Fleming. In January of 1943, Dr. Fleming converted most of the home into a private hospital. Deemed an official "Casualty Station" under the direction of doctors Ira. M. Zimmerman and Ralph F. Young, they prepared to treat the wounded. Considered one of the best equipped in the state, this station had a reception room, an operating room, and a dressing room with running water, emergency lighting, and full kits of instruments and supplies for emergency work. Ambulance crews were trained and equipped to move the wounded to the station.

The Red Cross, Red Cross United Service Organization, and First Aid Corp of Williamsport were ready and able to treat the wounded.











On October 29, 1945 the Williamsport Lions Club celebrated Veteran's Day with a parade and a veteran's banquet at the Community Building.


The banquet was free to all veteran's of World War II in the Williamsport district.






Aerial photograph of the Liberty ship SS John W. Brown


Days 2 Laying of the keel plates

Day 6 Bulkheads and girders below the second deck are in place

Day 10 Lower deck being completed and the upper deck amidship erected

Day 14 Upper deck erected and mast houses and the after-deck house in place

Day 24 Ship ready for launching






