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By the end of the year, they were allowed to leave the camps but could not return to their home countries because the war had not yet ended. By 1944, only 6 Jews were left residing at Camp Algiers. The war ended in 1945 and the facility was turned back into the New Orleans border patrol. [3]
Among the voyages of the General S. D. Sturgis transporting displaced persons from Bremerhaven, Germany was an arrival in New York on 7 August 1951; on 11 September 1951 it docked to Pier 21 in Halifax, Canada; and on 11 October 1951, it reached New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. with around 1,300 displaced persons.
The National WWII Museum, formerly known as The National D-Day Museum, is a military history museum located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., on Andrew Higgins Drive between Camp Street and Magazine Street. The museum focuses on the contribution made by the United States to Allied victory in World War II.
Camp Harahan, [1] also called Camp Plauche, was a troop staging area outside New Orleans, Louisiana during World War II. [2] The camp served as a staging area for troops passing through the New Orleans Port of Embarkation. Its mission changed to that of a training base in 1942.
Fazendeville was a small, historic, African American community in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States.Located near the Freedmen's Cemetery in the parish, this village was razed during the 1960s as part of an expansion of the Chalmette National Battlefield in the Jean Lafitte National Historic Park and Preserve.
ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar was captured in new images plotting his attack in New Orleans a little over an hour before killing 14 people when he rammed a pickup truck into a crowd ...
As New Orleans prepares to host the Super Bowl next month, Louisiana authorities cleared homeless encampments around the stadium Wednesday and relocated many to a temporary warehouse facility that ...
Jim Mowrer and his wife, Nicole, snapped a photo early morning Jan. 1, 2025, in New Orleans' French Quarter about 30 minutes before an attack killed at least 14 people and injured dozens more.