BETHLEHEM STEEL WWII SHIP PRODUCTION VICTORY & LIBERTY SHIPS MD86514
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- SHIPWAYS is a 1945 film presented by the Bethlehem Steel Company - Shipbuilding Division. The film opens with vintage footage of massive modern ships being built in the yards of Bethlehem Steel Company. (00:00:55:00) Then, we see the christening ceremony (00:01:50:00) of the USS Topeka. A nice shot of ships at Bethlehem yards is seen at (00:04:50:00. Various ship models from the distant past are seen at (00:05:22:00). A nice animated montage of Bethlehem ships launched from Quincy Yards is seen at (00:06:32:00). Famous ships from Sparrows Point Yard during World War I can be seen at (00:6:53:00). Finally, ships from San Francisco Yard are shown at (00:07:05:00). An animated map of Bethlehem’s yards across America can be witnessed at (00:07:27:00). The process of shipbuilding begins with detailed sketches (00:08:35:00). This is followed by hull designs going to the mold loft. (00:08:50:00) Soon, we have a large model to work with. (00:10:22:00) Now, let’s follow a ship through the assembly line starting with the fabricating shop. (00:10:29:00) Next, at the building yard we see workers placing the keel block and running the centerline. (00:11:40:00) After that, we see amazing visuals of the steel parts of the ship being put in place, bit by bit. (00:12:20:00). After much hard work, the ship has its launch ceremony, a major event. (00:15:18:00) Once launched, the ship is off to the outfitting pier, where all of America contributes to putting the finishing touches on the latest Victory ship. (00:17:12:00) Finally, she is off for her trial run at sea. (00:18:10:00) An animated map shows where ships can go to be serviced, (00:18:42:00) followed by various footage of repairs. (00:18:57:00) The ability to convert peace vessels to warships is integral to Bethlehem. (00:20:00:00) Once the Second World War hit, the largest ship building operation in American history took place. Thousands of workers were hired (00:23:15:00) trained, (00:23:35:00) and eventually building ships. (00:24:20:00) We then see the launch of a myriad of ships (00:24:50:00). An overview of how the attack on Pearl Harbor effected the ship building operation begins at (00:26:10:00). Brilliant footage of the Destroyer Escort can be seen at (00:27:10:00). An amazing shot of five ships being launched due to extreme need, can be seen at (00:28:40:00). A commissioning ceremony for the British Navy can be seen at (00:29:13:00). Soon, Bethlehem began building landing craft to give our troops an edge in battle. (00:30:25:00) The launch of the second USS Lexington can be seen at (00:32:15:00). A carrier of epic proportions, the USS Wasp, can be seen being launched at (00:33:15:00). The USS John Hancock can be seen being christened at (00:34:50:00). The film ends with the President of Bethlehem broadcasting a message of progress to all of its workers and all of America. (00:36:10:00) Many launches are shown at (00:37:45:00).
Various impressive shots of shipyards appear at (00:07:40:00), (00:18:25:00), (00:20:50:00), (00:22:32:00), (00:25:10:00), (00:27:30:00) and (00:29:00:00).
Additional footage of ships out at sea can be witnessed at (00:07:55:00), (00:30:00:00), (00:31:25:00), and (00:34:30:00).
Ship wreckage and battle footage can be seen at (00:20:40:00), (00:26:53:00), (00:30:15:00), (00:31:45:00) and (00:32:35:00).
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My Dad was a welder at the Bethlehem Shipyards from 1939 to December, 1941. After Pearl Harbor, he and a few of his friends decided to sign up for military service, and my Dad ended up as a medic in the ETO after training and served in a hospital in England throughout the rest of the war. He told me of his time at Bethlehem Shipyards, and how he actually enjoyed his work. He told me he could have stayed there for the duration, but thought he could do more by joining the US Army. He retired in 1970, having also served in the Korean War. We are so very proud of his service, and of all those who serve our nation!
I live in Baltimore, and most of the men on my father's side, worked at Bethlehem, Sparrows Point. Maybe that's the reason I became a welder, because it's in my blood. Most of the Service men, are from my mom's side.
The hearts of men like your Father contributed so much to the war effort. He sacrificed a job at the shipyard, a job he loved that could have kept him safe at home and that nobody could have ever faulted him for choosing. He chose instead to go and do even more. He was truly an unsung hero, thank you for sharing this little part of his story. His and all the other stories should never be forgotten!
Where do we get such men , that would leave a good paying job in a safe area to join the service during wartime ? In the United States, that is where . GBA.
Your Dad lived a heck of a life
Wonder if he would have been drafted? How did a welder become a medic?
My mother was a welder at the fore river yard in Quincy during the war
My father and Uncle were machinist at Sparrow Point as Machinist. One turn down the shafts while the other bored out the rudders and cut the keyways. Twenty years later, I served on one of those T-3 tankers. Built to last
That must have felt cool to be on a ship your relatives help build
My dad sailed USS Escanaba Victory from her launch in Portland till the end of the war,
Did they work at the Number 2 shop? I worked there as a machinist between 1965 and 1968, when I was laid off with 12,000 other machinists, millwrights, and engineer. The scale of that shop, and the lore I experienced every day was mind-boggling. I learned more than I ever could have imagined, from many men who had worked there during the war. The best hourly job I ever had, and I still use tools I purchased while at the Number shop. One of my favorite jobs was fitting rudder and propeller shafts.
All that was accomplished with pen, paper and clipboards. Can you imagine the task of just keeping track of all the blueprints, revisions, work orders, spare parts, and all the ledgers that had to be kept? Amazing
@Tom Garbo People worked and hard and were happy to do so. They say today the Panama Canal would never be built due to politics and environmental bickering.
*Slide rules
I think they had the right number of people to do the job! Today we try to do every job with 0.5 full time equivalents, when it should have maybe been 5 people. AND they trained people to do the jobs if they didn’t have them!
Just goes to show you man doesn't need computers
And got the job done quicker and better!!!
The birth of the Greatest Generation. Ship builders beat two nations at war with this country. Greatness!!!
If we had to do this again in this day and age, we wouldn't have a chance.
What a time to be alive back then,things where much more simple to understand, I'm sure they must have worked there butts off to get things done in a hurry but skillfully, we are forever indebted to them for all they did for us and this country.
Watching this kind of thing makes me so proud to be an American, it brings a tear to my eye.
7x12 hour days around the clock best workers around the world by far preculision
Back in the day when everyone wasn't a narcissist and people were actually patriotic.
Wow, the sound quality of the narration is exceptionally good. I'm so used to the slightly distorted voices, that this sounds eerily modern.
I've been seeing documentaries for almost 60 years, yet this one has done one thing that no other documentary I've seen did.
It included enough clips, onscreen for sufficient time, from several different distances and angles, and most importantly, ones that had people in them.
The clips of aircraft carriers, from distances and angles that you could see very clearly how BIG they were. Gigantic for the period.
So many clips of carriers are from combat photographers, and they are most often ships in combat, with all the crazy intensity to see. And also, they are very rarely able to get full wide shots of ships, like any Hollywood movie can do today. So many of the shots were close in, full of action, and usually up close enough that you don't get the larger picture at all.
Sure, some exceptions exist. There's quite a few clips of D-Day where you can get great views of LST's and LCMP's, with enough tanks, halftracks, jeeps and soldiers to get a true idea of the massive scale of that operation. Times where combat photographers WERE presented with a position to shoot from that gave the viewer a comprehensive picture of the battle area in question DID exist.
But for some reason, none of the documentaries from back then were as effective in getting across the sense of size of an aircraft carrier as the clips from the shipyards they have in this film.
Proud Grandson of Grandparents that fought during WWll in the battlefields and oceans while the other halfs were on the home front building these merchant and battle ships in the dry docks of NYC. My one grandfather was a Merchant Marine who began as a engine room engineer and worked his @ss off to become a graduate of Kings Point Naval Academy and becoming a officer. He was literally on the ships transporting our weapons and needs to Europe though the worst of the worst times, during the German wolf-packs hunting his boats and taking no survivors! It's amazing to think about the fact he maybe was even on a ship that his wife had been welding on during construction or repairs? She wasn't a Rosy-the-Riveter, but a Rosy-the-welder. She was very proud of her work and being able to actually contribute to her husband's life and the war efforts of America. Somehow through a miracle of divine intervention? They were both able to survive and have a family during and after the war, coming home In one piece. Without these men and women who sacrificed so much of their lives and many paying with the ultimate price for the defense of Europe and the battle against Japan, who knows what would have happened if they didn't do what they did then? And how America maybe not even being America anymore. Because of such brave men and women we owe so much to we have a very special place we have to continue to protect from outside and inside threats! We are within very dangerous times right now and we know who are enemies are! Sadly they are not truly outsiders, but our own people who wish to harm our country! We the people need to protect our nation from these people and their threats to destroy us at all causes!💯%🇺🇸
A very humbling, movie to watch on Labor Day.
Kudos to all these workers. Slide Rules, Scales, Templates, Models and MASSIVE Casting and amazing Machine Shops....
An America that will never be seen again...I watched all those war time industries die a slow and steady death...The 70's and 80's were brutal...
In my town in The Netherlands, an old bridge was recently revised. When all layers of the old paint and the wooden bridge deck was removed, the name "Bethlehem" was revealed. So, the steel of the bridge must have been manufactured by this company.
And so was the George Washington and Golden Gate bridges among others. Bethlehem Steel Corporation was a giant back then special during WWII.
They mentioned the Fairfield yard and made me wonder where the shipyard on the River Clyde got its name from.
@@usmcforever7630 1,100 ships during WW2, Empire State Building, Madison Square Garden, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Rockefeller Plaza, Walt Whitman Bridge, from Philadelphia to NJ, Alcatraz and on and on.
That’s a good story, what is the town?
@@johnfranklin8319 Bethlehem, Pa
They help save the world back then or we wouldn't be here today to watch this video. Great job!
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I grew up near that Quincy, MA shipyard, it breaks my heart to drive by there now and see
15,000 new import cars waiting on the property to go to dealers.That shipyard was just rusting away for 40 years before they tore it down and made it into a huge parking lot
for new imports.
Sparrow Point has a Amazon distribution center, Ups and Fedex and a small specialty steel corp.; just to name a few. I have no idea how they cleaned up so much toxicity
@@verpauly PJ, before Sparrow Point went way off course, I would visit my grandparents who lived in Baltimore and spend several weeks. My grandmother would take me on day trips around the area. One morning, we were up early and caught the trolley and after changing a few times ended up at Sparrow Point. I was 7 years old and those furnaces were running bent down wide open. (this was back in 1955) We had lunch, did a little tour and headed back home.
I realize that it is a shell of yesterday. I think of my age and like everything that gets old, it is discarded.
Our country today is also a shell of what it once was. The values which were taught when I came along are no longer part of what parents teach kids. I'm old, live alone and I too will soon be discarded just like so much of our history has been erased. God bless those of us who are left with the memories of a more civil time. My kids tell me I was tough on them, but today they see the why. I'm sorry to say that I don't see them passing a lot of what I thought I taught them. Cell phones have ruined the world.
@@wessmith7408 where the Soo locks in when You where a kid ? I think myself that time lines are really not adding up. There is really strange things happening and I know You are going to think I am nuts. The Moon and the Sunny are not what we think. You were not hard on the kids it showed them morals which plenty of people dont have these days. They want to wipe us up. This would be the 7th go around for man kind. Thank U.
One fine film.
Looking for my nanny(grandmother). She was a welder there and said she was always down near the keel and all the little spaces. She was a tiny woman, less than 5' tall. She went on to be a welder at Fisher Body auto works. My son carries on her trade.
Different breed of men and women back then. Far different breed. I marvel at their extreme toughness and ability to work endlessly around the clock with that no bullshit mentality. Taking such pride in their craft, producing products to outlast multiple lifetimes. True Grit💯💯👍💪
I wish they would have talked about Todd Shipyard. Todd Houston employed 23,000 men and women and built 208 Liberty ships and 14 T1-M-BT2 tankers.
Lady Lex is in Corpus Christi TX. She is a fine ship indeed. I went to see her last year.
My old Metal's teacher in highschool, his father and grandfather worked at Bethlehem Steel
I worked on some of these Victory and Liberty ships as an Army stevedore. 412th Transportation Co
"That loftsman is right."
Thank you random guy in the foreground
Truly amazing. Think about what went in to making all the steel. The iron ore mines and blast furnaces must have run 24/7 to keep up with that rate of ship production. Not to mention everything else.
On Google earth look at the iron range in Minnesota. Those pits were working around the clock. Steel was in short supply and slowed down production of a couple of war ships.
It was also, the last war, in which thousands of wooden vessels were built as well. I wonder if we will ever have to turn to wood again?
They always run 24/7. If a blast furnace cools you're looking at buying a new blast furnace.
The USS Lexington was still in Active use by the US Navy in the 1990s as a carrier qualification training ship. She is now preserved and permanently berthed in Corpus Christi, Texas as a museum ship.
what a great doco .
My Uncle drove for Bethlehem from 1942 to 1968 when the plant was shut down.
The ability to suddenly increase ship production by twenty times is not trivial. No other industrialized countries can achieve such a feat. It is not just increasing the industrial infrastructure. It is training a sufficient number of people to do complex tasks who in turn builds the industrial capability that is amazing.
My grandfather worked for Bethlehem Steel during World War II in Cincinnati Ohio
My first job out of high school was at the sparrows point ship yard for about 6 months before they closed
Sadly, the Bethlehem Steel complex got converted into a casino and entertainment complex. Here's a couple of interesting facts: The song "Allentown" by Billie Joel was actually about Bethlehem Steel and the economic downturn the entire area suffered when the plant was shut down. Allentown and Bethlehem have grown large enough that they are almost 2 halves of 1 large city nowadays.
Also, right up to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Bethlehem Steel Co. and it's various sites around the region were all listed as nuclear first-strike targets should a nuclear war break out. In spite of the plant being defunct for many years, it was never removed from the list.
Both parents born in Steelton, Pa. lived there as a kid everyone worked for Bethlehem Steel.
Second on the list goofy as it might sound was Gary Indiana
My whole family worked at the Bethlehem Plant. Some of them came from Hungary and Ireland and the other side from Puerto Rico. That's what America is about, not trying to burn down a Federal Courthouse
@@jjosephm7539 Exactly. I feel bad for those Beth. Steel Pensioners who basically got their retirements stolen while the corporate guys took the money and ran as the plant was shutting down.
I sort of wish that activism and protests (peaceful of course) would have been a lot stronger over it at the time it was revealed.
The Beth. Steel pension collapse / scandal, call it what you will, had a major negative effect on the Lehigh Valley for a long time.
Still, I agree 100% This crap rioting around the country is exactly that - crap and rioting.
Unfortunately, it seems some peoples' children aren't above lowering themselves to this kind of trashy action.
If you want a pretty good glimpse at what the Portland looks like after riots are declared nightly for almost 80 straight days, check out Portland Andy's live stream, every night around midnight Eastern Standard Time.
Absolutely fascinating , a Cold War nugget of history.
My grandfather worked here at bethlehem during the war, he was a welder.
What magnificently stirring music.
Yes. I'm wondering what's the title.
Fantastic Video. 😊
"We've had men here that were on their hands and knees almost all their working lives."
Ya that didn't sound right somehow.
Bath House Barry enters the conversation....
Vito Spattafore from the Sopranos would love a job there
Where they carpet installers, I don't get it?
Wow all I can say is wow!!!!
My father served on the heavy cruiser Canberra, she was built in the Bethlehem ship yard.
The Oylmpia has been docked in Philadelphia for decades.
We take it for granted that America was able to produce so much during WW2 but it was mostly the genius, organization and resourcefulness of a handful of the key industrialists of the time that got us there. The rest was the ingenuity and will of the American people. I wonder if we could match such a feat today.
The productivity was remarkable. Pres. Roosevelt worked with labor leaders to convince them to hire women (a tough sell at the time) and finally issued an executive order to ban racial discrimination in labor hiring. This helped to fill the void left by so many workers joining the military.
USS Topeka CL-67 had a busy career late in the Pacific War, providing AA fire support for Task Force 38 and then closing in the to the home islands of Japan to shell industrial facilities and naval units
I know that this was a rah rah propaganda film in the style of the day, but in most respects it was true. People (men and women) put their minds, hearts and hard labour to come together in a national goal and took pride in that. A job needed to be done, whether in battle, in the shipyards, or building aircraft and tanks, and they did it. They did it. Contrast that with today with a different challenge, and people are blowing off social distancing or wearing masks because - personal rights or it's a hoax or I don't give a shit about my fellow citizens? Give me a freaking break. One nation, undivided. The greatest generation - in this video you are seeing one part of that generation and how on the home front they enabled the soldiers, sailors and aviators to prevail and create a society where people have the freedom to not give a shit about their fellow citizens. I'm sure they are ashamed for us.
Everybody had brothers fathers uncles fighting to keep us free and safe
You better wake up because that stuff is a way to take more of your rights. Going Green means taking your money. Plenty of inflators out there. Mask up. The sun and moon are fake.
Excellent corporate video. I'm working on a video for the Liberty Ship SS John W Brown and may want to license some of this.
Anyone else notice in the part where a new Destroyer Escort is commissioned into the Royal Navy that when the British national anthem was played it sounded like a dirge?
"We've had men here on their hands and knees all their working lives."
That scriptwriter knew _exactly_ what he was making them say, lol.
You can't be on your knees your whole working life without getting knee joint problems. I know this from friends who experienced this working in car plants.
I also feel sorry for floor tilers and carpet layers.
There really are NO Snowflakes working in shipyards. Not hard to believe. These guys are tough.
I wish I had been alive at this time...
Even Building The Ark Took Engineering, It Is Something. 😊
We couldn't build ships that fast today
Actually wouldn't have to one modern day destroyer or aircraft carrier has the destructive power to place a end of the world as we know it not to mention the nuclear submarines that have crazy destructive power and let's not forget there's other countries that have the same destructive power steady on the trigger please
35:36 232 Fighting ships, 310 cargo and tanker ships. So, I agree we could not build the cargo and transport ships that we would need. Also agree with the other comment, we my not need as many fighting ships.
Yes we could
My ship (USS L.Y. Spear AS36) was built there. I always wondered what happened when they threw the switch to launch the ship and nothing happened.
What a nifty score! Most of it is a rearrangement of Beethoven. Other is lifted British patriotic music. Guaranteed to be a success. And much less work than writing fresh.
The Gearing Class Destroyer I was on was built here in WW2. It's all gone now bulldozed to oblivion.
Info and history on the cruiser USS Topeka shown being launched in the opening scenes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Topeka_(CL-67)
"It must hurt to be on your hands and knees all day" "no... some of these men have been doing it all there lives." - kinda avoided the question lol
Logistics win wars.
Until TH-cam came along, who would have known that Bethlehem Shipbuilding was the $$ behind Charles Schwab Investments, a la Kaiser Shipbuilding was behind the juggernaut that became Kaiser Healthcare. Will the legacies of WWII U.S. industrial growth and production ever cease?
The Bethlehem steel about 2 miles from my house, many family worked there over the years. When I joined the Marine Corps the one ship I was on has a Bethlehem Steel tag 1920s inside. Long gone now all China shit now.
And today we can't even manufacture underwear.
Lmaoo
Thank you. That needed pointing out. Also Baby Formula and Toilet Paper.
Wanna know why they were called the Greatest Generation. Watch this video
This is a skill in engineering that gives great honor to our father Noah.
For those who don't know, the hull of Noah's 515' foot wooden ship that preserved every major species of life whose diversity of genetics produced the myriad species we see today, this craft, created under the tutelage of the Master Craftsman matched the hull of America's WWII battleships.
No clumsy design as is purported.
Track down the hull remains in Turkey as verified by Ron Wyatt, and acknowledged as "the real deal" by the Turkish government.
Is the Easter Bunny near there? Gotta love those silly stories.
@@kaptainkaos1202 I'll get to you in a minute.
@@kaptainkaos1202 Years ago a fortuneteller in NYC using Tarot Cards told me my life's history and decisions I had just made for my future. Only devils could arrange those cards. This is not hocus pocus, but spiritual warfare against the soul. People need to come onboard with "the Lord Jesus Christ." Read His words. Take 'em to heart. And forget the churches. They're still in the dark ages.
Our teacher in history told us that ,after the pearl harbour attack one of the Japanese General who plan the attack SAID : We just woke up a sleeping Giant ...
I think that Giant was sleeping in the shipyard LoL
The "Japanese General" that you refer to was Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. If you want to Google his name, there are tons of information about him in books and on the internet.
Yamamoto KNEW they were going to be in deep trouble if they decided to twist our tail. When they bungled the timing at Pearl Harbor, he knew they were in for a pounding from a nation that had the knowledge and resources to make it all happen.
Pearl harbor was planned. Several higher ups in the military, red cross and salvation army were told to evacuate and they ratted out that shithead communist FDR.
Too bad that fictional statement attributed to Yamamoto is till being spread. It was written for a.movie and never said in real life.
A long range P-38 from _"Operation Vengeance"_ shot down Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto near Bougainville 18th April 1943, so he didn't last long after Pearl Harbour. All the result of electronic intelligence pinpointing the time and location of his transport aircraft's flight.
USS Topeka wasn't scrapped until 1975...
So sad, my House is on the Beach in Germantown across from where the Shipyard was, there is hardly a trace of it left. America doesn't make anything no more.
And what thanks did the tradesmen and women get, compared with what the returned soldiers got in the years after WW11, for without them there world be no weapons for the military to fight this war, they got nothing they were forgotten about
They got paid handsomely. And went home to sleep in their own beds and eat three meals a day without anyone shooting at them. Your comment is silly.
They were not forgotten by me . Even the Frisco Bay Area has a museum for ' Rosie the Riveter ' .
@@videodistro Not to quibble too much but they were not paid handsomely. There were wage controls in place and income taxes were very high to try and stop war profiteering. It is true that there were people that made more money than they had ever made or had made in years but they were being paid at existing wage scales. The whole deal with veterans benefits was that the soldiers and sailors had been away from their jobs and so had suffered economically. The veterans benefits were partly an effort to make up for that. I would add to your comment that the guys in their 20s and 30s that worked in war industries did not suffer at all economically or educationally and so no special benefits were called for or necessary.
When looking at the creativity and moral vision that this video illustrates, one cannot but realize the contrast with the decrepitude and entitlement that are shamelessly demonstrated in our day and age, even at the top level of the governmental hierarchy. Whereas our Society was achieved on the basis of work ethics and the general sense of duties, I fear that current collective mindsets, including the fallacy of political correctness, will eventually bring our downfall. 2022/12/12. Ontario, Canada.
You'd think with the urgency of building and launching ships at this time, they'd do away with the pomp and ceremony of the christening.
Probably for Liberty ships and LSTs they did, but major warships like cruisers they had to keep up the old tradtions
It would be bad luck
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Wow! OSHA, would have a blast writing citations here! Did you notice all the men standing under that massive sheet of steel being slung over their heads? No hard hats, goggles, or ear plugs. I bet they all have hearing aids now.
Dude, their all dead now. Or over 100 years old
Safety was up to you back then .
OSHA would have been run off by the Navy inspectors.
Piggin Ron!
When Bethlehem steel in Baltimore closed down thats when Baltimore started to go downhill.
First was imported Japanese and Argentinian steel; later imported autos. While this was happening, social unrest while trying to undo injustices. Laid off from BSC and GMAC too many times, I gave up on Baltimore never to return. However, no regrets.
A poorly run, one trick city controlled by by unions and corrupt politicians. A day of reconing finally arrived.
All Union On Time Ahead of schedule God Bless America
Only because the unions were limited and to a great extent suspended. Otherwise things would have ground to a halt.
Its really sad that after all their hard work Honda Toyota Suzuki Mercedes are common terms
You should definitely increase the amount of ads you have... like maybe 1 every 2 minutes.
27:55
'Murica! and the US Navy!
Hey look, Silvio Dante at 23:46.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Dante
Dear Periscope, I was very disappointed to find the constant insertion of a shipbuilding video into your endless parade of commercials and advertisements.
TIL how to properly say "Beth lee um" instead of that other place.
how great We are God
BLESS America
If the time comes when the nation must make steel for weapons ,ships to defend itself we are in trouble. Can see our fate being like germany and Japan in ww2 , invaded and conquered by our future enemies and they wont be as generous as we were after the war
Humans aren't supposed to work on their hands & knees. He acts like because they've done it their whole lives, that they're used to it. That just means their knees are going to be shot, by the time they're 50!😩
Are you a computer programmer working in a cubical?
I hear tell they were cranking out ships so fast during WW2 they were running outta Campaign an the fish were drunk for five years.
They couldn't build ships fast today like they did liberty ships
Be glad the US dont have the same people in charge as today.
Why couldn’t Baltimore save its ship building industry ?
Isn't it sad? Bethlehem Sparrows Pt Shipyard,Key Highway and Maryland Drydock in Fairfield were large operations employing thousands of Marylanders.
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Too much propaganda. Not enough ship building.
What in the crap are u talking about? The mob ? And other crap?
This was the fulfillment of God's promise of national greatness to Abraham in Genesis 35 :11 of a "nation (USA) and company of nations (the British empire)." It's a doctrine called British - Israelism that dates back to the 1600s.
Very interesting , he may mean Israel but worth considering this idea .
Didn't these ships have a flaw to Crack in the middle and sink?