The weapon that was most important to allied victory as we know it was not the T-34 tank or B-17 bomber, or even the atomic bomb, but a simple, cheap, mass produced merchant ship. This is the story of the Liberty Ship.

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0:00 - Intro
0:45 - More Shipping Needed
3:00 - What if Merchant Ship was cheap?
4:10 - Ship printer go brrrrrrrr
8:30 - Impact of the Liberty Ship

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Sources:

L.A Sawyer and W.H Mitchell, The Liberty Ships

Stephen Roskill, War at Sea
https://web.archive.org/web/200805090...

Peter Elphick, Liberty: The Ships that won the war
https://archive.org/details/libertysh...

Evan Mawdsley, War for the Seas

Joseph B Fabry, Swing shift: building the liberty ships
https://archive.org/details/swingshif...

Phillips Payson O’Brien, How the War was Won

Naval Staff History, The Defeat of the Enemy Attack on Shipping, 1939-45

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