Liberty Factory: The Untold Story of Henry Kaiser's Oregon Shipyards by Marsh, Peter

Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing, 2021. Churchill famously claimed that the only thing that had really frightened him during the war was the Battle of the Atlantic. Keeping open the lifeline between the US arsenal of democracy and the UK was essential to preparations for the invasion of Europe and in the final analysis this came down to building merchant ships faster than German U-boats could sink them. Crucial to this achievement was the Liberty ship , a simple freighter that could be built rapidly, combined with the untapped industrial potential of the USA that could build them in vast numbers. Undoubtedly the most important individual in the rapid expansion of US wartime shipyard capacity was Henry Kaiser, a man with no previous shipbuilding experience but an entrepreneur of vision and drive. This book tells the story of how he established huge new yards using novel mass-production techniques in the most surprising location Oregon, one of the least industrially developed areas of the US and one… Read More

Naval Inst Pr, 2020. Hardcover. New. 192 pages. 10.25x8.50x1.25 inches.

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