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On the swing shift : building liberty ships in Savannah /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cope, Tony
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Liberty ships > Georgia > Savannah > History.
Shipbuilding > Georgia > Savannah > History.
World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, American.
Merchant marine > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The "Jim"
  • New York, New York
  • This ship will do us very well
  • If you build it, they will come-- and build ships
  • Wendy the welder at Southeastern
  • You were a laborer no matter what skills you had
  • If you don't join, you don't work
  • Doing the same thing over and over
  • You can't spell victory with an absent "T"
  • Who are all these chaps?
  • Fifteen minutes of fame
  • Getting ready for war
  • New York to Great Britain
  • It sounded just like a two-inch fire cracker
  • St. Patrick's Day, 1943
  • A submarine's torpedo ended the career of--
  • A mixed blessing
  • Then, as Camelot, it disappeared.