An overview of the “Liberty Ship” used in WW2.
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SS john w brown is a liberty ship in Baltimore Maryland built from the steelmills of Maryland and it have 2 jeeps in the hold and you want to take a ride and a tour of it get tickets ahead of schedules for it
british brain american might perhaps how the world should be
Hello John. Make an Opel Blitz video!
And just like before America, France & England screwed up, by removing the Kaiser and his general staff they let the mad Austrian take charge, I am no fan of the Nazi regime but they were no better than the Soviets, so I will say this, they should have sent then to the Germans, not the English or the Russians,
Don't forget the SS Richard Montgomery that sank in the Thames estuary with 1400 tons of explosives still in her hold.
Third Reich: We have a Ghost Division.
Imperial Japan: And we’ve got the Akagi, Hiryu, Kaga and Soryu.
America: I’ve got 2,700 Liberty ships that can transport men and equipment globally.
DM: America wins.
Really good video on you.
Like with the DC-3 replacement "Liberty Ship replacement" designs were a thing in the 1960s though by then the general cargo steamer was beginning to be replaced by container vessels.
As a lifelong Maine resident I am proud to say that one of the Surviving Liberty ships was the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien, was Built in a Portland Maine shipyard. I am sad she is on the west coast, thought Glad she is Preserved considering the Important role her class played in Helping to win the Second world war.
There's a Victory Ship in Tampa, FL that has been preserved as a museum ship. Well worth a visit.
Interestingly enough, the volunteers at that Victory Ship help the crew of the cruise ship that docks next to them by allowing those who work on the cruise ship to have their online orders and packages delivered to the Victory Ship (and thus allowing the crew to order stuff online, without having to leave the dock area to pick it up), so now the ship has become it's own mini cargo depot of sorts once again.
Thanks for mentioning the Hopkins. It's a story that needs to be remembered.
The Texas city explosion killed 27/28 TC firefighters.
This should honestly be aired in High School History Classes. Hell of a job delivering so much information in such little time, Johnny!
And then, the moms who made the planes and ships, and the Dads that flew and crewed them, had kids.
Those kids enjoyed jobs in the factories that stayed open after the war, and the new ones that opened.
Then, they just… gave it all away…
The numbers are mind numbing…….. i cannot even imagine how much 2 million trucks are or how much space they need. amazing
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I misread the thumbnail as ‘Liberty Simps’ lol
This video was extremely well made. I suspect that you might have lifted a bit from those old timey videos, but that’s ok with me.
I think it was Nicholas Moran who was commenting on the relative effectiveness of German infantry vs US infantry during WW 2. One factor was that the front line army units were the premier branch of service and received personnel from among the best recruits.
Meanwhile the US Army funneled men who were good at math to Artillery and spotting, men who were mechanically inclined into the motor pools, etc. So, on average, the US grunts were not as smart as the German grunts and could get into trouble from this.
Until that artillery spotter attached to their company calls in accurate artillery fire in copious quantity because of all the shipping capacity that allowed large quantities of ordnance to be shipped to the theatre of operations and those motor pools that kept the supplies flowing to where they were needed.
Battleships and cruisers kept the soldiers going in combat with their shore bombardment for a few critical days after landing, but the transport ships got them and their supplies there in the first place, and kept those soldiers supplied every day after.
Once you know the truth about WW2 you realize that these ships should be called the "oppressive ship" not Liberty
My Dad had TB before WW2 he tried to join the Military but was classified 4F, so he went to work at Kaiser shipyards in Portland Oregon , I heard a lot about the building of Liberty Ships when I was a boy .
We have Two Liberty Ships that Dock in Wilmington NC from time to time.. I have no Idea what they are hauling though.
Bro these ships literally won the war
A lot of people don't realize how important logistics & industrial manufacturing are for winning a war.
This was one of the main factors, while the Allies won WWII.
built in 4 days sounds cool but its not.
My grandfather served on the P.H. Burnett IX-104 Liberty ship during WW2.
It could be argued that LSTs were the most valuable ships as they were so scarce D-Day had to be postponed because there weren’t enough of them.
I was on one in Long Beach. I thought that I would be bored because it was a trip for the day on an active ship, but I loved it.
I think only three Liberty ships still exist today. One in Alaska which is permanently grounded, one in Baltimore, and one in San Francisco the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien which is berthed behind the USS Pampanito submarine. Both are museum ships.
There’s a uss victory ship here in Tampa Florida lots of cool stuff on it and in it
The Most Important Ship of WW2?
Flower-Class corvettes
Without them the Liberty's wouldn't be able to cross the Atlantic
Not bad for a ship with a designed lifespan of only 5years.
Speaking of disasters, we can't forget the SS Richard Montgomery which is still a ticking time bomb in the Thames estuary.
The number of people needed to crew all those Liberty Ships has got to be totally insane.
we’re gonna need more of these to fight china
Is “invasion of Australia” important?
How much natural resources do they have?
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One of the last surviving liberty ships has been turned into a museum and is near where I live, my family and I have visited it countless times, they are a lot larger than they seem
USS Liberty 1967.
Fast forward to today.
We can't build 5 destroyers in an entire YEAR.
Forget about WW2, our current ship production capacity is PRE-CIVIL WAR .
Yes and L.S.T.