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14-245 Garand Picture of the Day- Salerno, September 1943.
Last edited by Mark in Rochester; 09-02-2014 at 12:58 PM.
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Amazing! An entirely new class of ship conceived, designed, launched less than 3 months after laying the keel, commissioned a year and one week after Pearl Harbor, and followed by another 389 in only 3 years!
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Try these 2 records ~ Two particular ships were built in record breaking amounts of time. First in September 1942 the Liberty ship SS Joseph N. Teal was built Oregon Shipbuilding in 10 days. Two months later in November at Richmond yard #2, the SS Robert E. Peary was launching in only 4 days, 15 hours, 29 minutes from the time her keel was laid. While not ever met or repeated during the remainder of World War II, these "stunt" ships came only a little more than one year after the first ships ordered as part of the Emergency Program were launched themselves.
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LCI (L) 209 was also a prototype even though numbered 209 . It was the second one laid down.
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A field day for mill scale. They skipped descaling the steel of the hull so rust formed under the paint and bottom sealant.
Bob
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my father talks about watching ships an armor leaving pittsburgh pa area every day when he was a little boy. trains an barges all day long. my grand father used to say during the war you had all the over time you wanted to work in the mills he was crane operatore in open pit.
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