WARSHIP BUILDERS: AN INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF U.S. NAVAL SHIPBUILDING, 1922-1945 /
"Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.S. naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War II, when American shipyards produced the world's largest fleet that helped defeat the Axis powers in all corners of the globe. A colossal endeavor that absorb...
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Annapolis, Maryland :
Naval Institute Press,
2020
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| Series: | Studies in Naval History and Sea Power
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| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Industrial history of U.S. naval shipbuilding, 1922-1945 |
| 264 | 1 | |a Annapolis, Maryland : |b Naval Institute Press, |c 2020 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2020 | |
| 300 | |a xii, 346 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-334) and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a "A Highly Specialized Art" The Decline and Recovery of Interwar Shipbuilding -- "An Unending Effort to Satisfy the Needs for High Speed and Great Strength" Warship Design, Welding, and Marine Engineering between the Wars -- "Superior to the Combined Strength of Our Enemies" Naval Strategy, Shipbuilding Programs, and Navy Department Reforms, 1940- -- "We Can Build Anything" Wartime Navy Yards -- "The Government Pays for Everything in There" Private Builders and Contractor-Operated Yards -- Conclusion Warship Building, Batch Production, and the U.S. Industrial Economy. | |
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