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Re:In Pursuit of PPE by ls612 on Friday April 17, 2020 @03:26PM (#22902124)
It took a while for the US to get the war production really going during the war. Logistics and production was a mess in 1942 and it wasn’t really until 1944 that they were pumping out dozens of carriers and hundreds of liberty ships a year.
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Re:In Pursuit of PPE by bb611 on Friday April 17, 2020 @09:54PM (#22904695)
The US completed 542 liberty ships in 1942, and 1943 was their peak production year: https://www.mathscinotes.com/2018/05/liberty-ship-production...

They reduced liberty ship production in 1944 to produce warships (which are more complex and were produced in much lower numbers)

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