The US made 2,710 liberty ships to carry supplies across the Atlantic Ocean during the second world war. It only took 60 days to make one, which helped because they needed to make ships faster than he German U-boats could sink them.
This one moored in San Francisco is only one of two that still work and capable of going to sea. It was named after Jeremiah O’Brien, who along with five brothers, seized a British ship during the Revolutionary War and flagged the first US naval vessel. It was at Normandy landing troops and supplies on D-Day and returned to France for a visit in 1994–the invasion’s 50th anniversary.
European and American military doctrine in the 1940s were vastly different. The construction of thousands of standardized transport vessels, hundreds of destroyers and over 120 escort carriers showed the Americans believed in winning by overwhelming force and industrial capacity. The Europeans, on the other hand, we’re fighting on home turf and believed in superior tactics and military maneuvers.
Everything on the ship works, so do a poo on an old ship toilet.
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