From Baird Maritime:
Given the lamentable shipbuilding performance of the United States during recent decades it is perhaps hard to imagine how efficient US shipbuilders became during World War Two.
Greedy unions, weak managers and pathetic, short-sighted politicians have conspired to destroy a once magnificent industry.
While that is regrettable, this very well researched book takes us back to the heyday of American shipbuilding.
During World War Two some 3,000 of the 10,850dwt Liberty Ships were built in the United States. Of them, 88 were built in Savannah, Georgia. This book is the story of the Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation over the four years that it built those ships in Savannah.
More importantly, though, it is the story of the 45,000 employees of the shipyard who did the work. They were a disparate and most interesting group. Few were trained in shipbuilding. Many were women, very young or quite old. The interesting thing is that their performance has ever been equalled.
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