Post by Administrator on Feb 5, 2014 19:13:06 GMT
"We did it before and we can do it again!" So echoed the clarion call to American shipbuilders to mobilize for construction of a new fleet of troopships in 1941.
"Built by the mile and chopped off by the yard," and delivered at the rate of one a day, American ingenuity and can-do — facing a global challenge at the end of 1941 — transformed its shipbuilding industry and produced more than 2,700 Liberty ships in five years to move men and materiel to the front.
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"Built by the mile and chopped off by the yard," and delivered at the rate of one a day, American ingenuity and can-do — facing a global challenge at the end of 1941 — transformed its shipbuilding industry and produced more than 2,700 Liberty ships in five years to move men and materiel to the front.
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