Other Memorial Displays

  • Hyde Park – Original of Freedom’s Cost painting and ship model

  • USS Yorktown (Charleston, NC) – Norman Loats shirt, diorama, and Huxtable exhibit, along with flight jacket, plotting board, flight helmet with goggles of VC-10 pilot, LT Henry A. Pyzdrowski, Sr.

  • USS George Washington – Lithograph of Freedom’s Cost

  • The Final Hour lithograph hung in the White House during the Ronald Reagan Presidency

  • The Final Hour lithograph is the cover art for Samuel Eliot Morison’s book, LEYTE June 1944 to January 1945, published in 2011.  The book is still available through the US Naval Institute Press

  • Astoria, OR – Ship model and Freedom’s Cost lithograph

  • Boston (museum unknown) – Freedom’s Cost lithograph

  • Great Lakes Training Station (Chicago, IL) – Freedom’s Cost lithograph

  • USS Hornet (Alameda, CA) – Ship model

  • USS Nimitz – Freedom’s Cost lithograph

  • MacArthur Museum (Norfalk, VA) – Model of the USS Gambier Bay

  • Pensacola Naval Aviation Museum – The Final Hour lithograph hanging above the model of the USS Gambier Bay, and the Ships Pennant

  • Pacific War Musem (Frederickburg, TX) – Freedom’s Cost lithograph/oral histories

  • Pacific War Museum (Honolulu, HI) – Oral history by Norman Loats

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If you know of items and locations of any memorabilia relating to the
USS Gambier Bay/VC-10, please contact either
Marlene Hughes at mahome@cox.net or
Paula Grond at pk_grond@yahoo.com with the information