April 12, 2025

Podcast 51 – Winning the War on the Lakefront

1 hour 33 minutes

The New Orleans Lakefront played many roles in the war effort of the 1940s.

USCG Guardsman standing guard at Higgins Industries, New Orleans

Winning the War on the Lakefront

This was originally a talk given at the National World War II Museum, part of their “Lunchbox Lecture” series. Doing it again as a podcast episode because talk recordings don’t always catch good angles of the photos and maps.

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Land Reclamation

West End Boulevard and the Lakefront, 1926. The street just above the center of the photo is Robert E. Lee Blvd. (Now Allen Toussaint Blvd.)

The Hospitals

From 1943: New Canal at bottom, then Lagarde Army Hospital, than Navy Hospital New Orleans.

NRAB/NAS New Orleans

V-5 Aviation Cadet class graduating at Naval Reserve Air Base New Orleans, 1941

Consolidated-Vultee

Pontchartrain Beach (top)), Consolidated-Vultee factory, Camp Leroy Johnson, Bomber Base.

Industrial Canal

PT-Boat commissioning ceremony at Higgins Industries on the Industrial Canal

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