How a small town built 50 Aircraft Carriers in 16 months.
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- The story of the Vancouver Shipyard in Washington State and their nearly forgotten contribution to the Allied Victory in World War Two. @AnyHistory
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The folks that constructed the carriers and other ships were as important to the war effort as any other component. What an admirable bunch of people.
I'd argue they are the most important component, including everyone working in the factories. WWII was a war of production.
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY!
@@williamhaynes4800 well that was the original intention, there and then. But now, as during the last fifty years...
@@sidewinder3422 )ooo
There are some cool old war propaganda films that address workforce directly. Give them a watch its fascinating but you are correct. Can't fire a gun with a crooked barrell
The Long Island was designated CVE-1. My father served on her for 4 years. He was a boatswain and quartermaster. He arrived for duty just before they sailed for Guadalcanal. They launched two squadrons of Marine fighter aircraft. The first to land at Henderson Field. They slipped in and out without the Japanese even knowing they were there. He served through Operation Magic Carpet. Their ports of call are too numerous to list. The Long Island was converted to a school dormitory after the war.
outstanding history, thanks for sharing
Is your father still alive? I'd love to hear his reaction about the game "Azur Lane"
Actually, she was commissioned as AVE-1, redesignated CVE-1 later when the Navy created that ship type. Also, she didn't launch 2 Marine Fighter Squadrons; she launched 1 Fighter Squadron and 1 Dive Bomber Squadron. 19 F4F3 Wildcats and 12 SBD-3 Dauntless.
@@patrickmccrann991 Thank you for clearing up my inaccuracies. Did you know she served in the Atlantic prior to being sent to the the Pacific theater? My Dad said he boarded her in San Diego just as they were leaving port for Pearl Harbor. He had no idea where they were going. He told me they returned to Guadalcanal in early 43 and off loaded P-47s for the AAF. Most of their trips were to resupply aircraft to various Islands and Australia.
@@rickklein7792 Yes, I knew she served in the Atlantic as well. She was actually purchased by the Navy before the war and finished her conversion shortly before our involvement in the war began. If I remember correctly, she was a C3 type cargo ship when purchased from the Maritime Administration.
WW2 is so amazing. There are so many small, yet important, things that happened, like these carriers and this town. Everyone was affected by the war somehow.
I love history gems, like this.
Fascinating and wonderful.
So amazing ! all those deaths and genocide was amazing eyy...........
@@lambbosbread123 If you approach history with an agenda, you won't understand it. Your biases will prevent you from understanding how and why people did what they did.
@@craigkdillonSorry, what did he say?
@craigkdillon lol I full understand why it happened. I still don't find it amazing .
@@lambbosbread123Just the logistics were amazing. An army marches on its stomach, is a very old statement. An army can't fight without ammunition. Ships, airplanes, tanks, trucks and etc can't move without fuel. Repairs can't be made without supplies. Amazing logistics.
My mother worked there building ships in WW2, she was an electrician.
Respect++
Tell her, From a greatful Nation Thank You
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That's so cool! Amazing that they accomplished what was almost impossible!☺
My grandpa died in the holocaust.
Fell off a guard tower
Mom built F4U Corsairs for LTV Corp. In Grand Praire plant next NAS Dallas
Had no idea, wow! Thank you to all those people who worked there. I know the risks inherent to that production level, even today, I just finished putting fifteen years plus in the San Diego shipyards !
I live in Vancouver and had no idea this stuff was made here. Awesome
Vancouver snd Portland have a CRAZY amount of history thats seemingly forgotten!!! Im into WWII naval history, and for a seemingly uninvolved area, im ALWAYS finding new nuggets of tied-in local history!!!
There is a tiny little place in North Florida called Newport; there is an oyster bar (biker bar) and a camp ground with boat ramp on the Saint Marks river and nothing else there except a few homes. There is an old abandoned boat basin connected to the river there but nothing testifies to the fact that during WW2 PT boat were manufactured and tested there.
Thank You!!!!! For your hard work 😓 and being a great neighbor
I love history and you taught me something new. Thanks!👍
This channel is awesome and I'm happy the algorithm led me here
I had no idea that many carriers were even used in WW2, very interesting.
Great video, thanks for sharing this very important piece of history.
I worked for Kaiser aluminum and chemical corp in Mead, Washington for many years until they basically shut down, post labor strike, in 1998. As employees, we were made aware of the contributions of The great Henry J Kaiser to Americas war effort. I always felt a sense of pride in working there, though there seemed to be a Union-led conflict designed to ire the workers and it eventually led to hundreds of people losing their good paying jobs. I’ve never worked a union job since and Im happy.
Kaiser also built automobiles for a time. The ' Henry J.' was one model.
Two unions fighting over two jobs (checking reefer containers) chased out carriers from the Port of Portland. May their balls shrivel.
Radical labor unions were always the workers worst enemy, these are the unions that jackass Biden loves
Fun fact... In early 1942 Henry Kaiser proposed to the U.S. Navy that he could build 30 escort carriers. The Navy rejected the offer. Undeterred, Kaiser went directly to FDR and proposed to build 100 escort carriers. FDR approved 50. You gotta love a guy like Henry Kaiser who doesn't take "no" for an answer, ups the ante and gets a contract for 50 instead of 30 escort carriers! Check out this short video on the Casablanca escort carriers. Enjoy. ua-cam.com/video/6WSd0ZJuRHg/v-deo.html
Many of the folks that worked at the Kaiser Vancouver site were housed in the Kaiser built-government funded housing on the south side of the Columbia River near the bridge crossing, a location that would be called VanPort.
I am a ship Captain and a Vancouverite. (BZ) Well Done
As someone born and bred on the River TYNE UK I can only wonder at the genius of these now forgot Hero's. You certainly learn something new every day.
Fun Fact- The US in June 1942 had 3 Fleet carriers and in late 1944 had 25.
It did not matter if the US lost all their ships at Midway , 16 months later they were building the largest navy in the world no matter how it turned out.
Another Fun Fact: The US Navy had 99 (or 101 depending on the information source) total aircraft carriers (fleet aircraft carriers plus escort aircraft carriers) at the end of WWII. The Japanese Navy, which launched the surprise attack on the US Navy at Pearl Harbor from aircraft carriers, had no aircraft carriers at the end of WWII.
After the giant had a rude awakening, the 'morning call maker' took a severe beating.
@@oscargrouch7962 Fun Fact-
in 1945 the US navy had the 2nd largest air force in the world after US Army Air Force.
At the peak of WW2 US assemble a carrier in a month, the speed that outmatch Axis
@@Crashed131963 And the Navy had its own army and its army had its own air force.
My shop was about a mile or so east of that. We had a shop since 1938. We moved to 4th street and Columbia in 48. I grew up hearing stories of all the people working there. It's really hard finding information about this area.
I grew up near Vancouver and had no idea about this.
14yo me watching this as a teen that loves documentaries about WWII
This is an Amazing Piece of History showing the Magnificent Efforts by a Small town but Big in Heart and Determination. This People were Pivotal for the American War Efforts to defeat the Evil and Fascist forces of the German and Japanese War Machines. More people needs to show more of the History of such Admirable efforts from our people directed to the Common Well Being. The Lord always be with them and their Souls and Spirits!!!!!
Nothing beats American spirit!!!!!
This is a great achievement and should be more widely talked about.
These CVE carriers were nicknamed "Jeep" carriers.
Those Jeep carriers were extremely important for convoy duty and amphibious landings. We would not have won the war without them.
Excellent stuff bro
Thanks for reviewing such important history .. almost no one knows this
Vancouver Washington is not a small town, it is the 4th largest city in Washington and the largest suburb of Portland Oregon a metro area of 2.5 million people.
There were three Kaiser Shipyards in the area, one was on the Willamette River in the St. Johns neighborhood of North Portland. The two others were the Swan Island Shipyard, located several miles upriver on Swan Island and the Vancouver Shipyard, located across the Columbia River from Portland in Vancouver, Washington. Most of the workers in the Vancouver Shipyard came from the community in North Portland of VanPort which was destroyed in 1948 by a flood.
Good to see some well made history videos :)
My grandmother welded ships during the war and lived in the Portland area. I never heard where she worked just that she welded ships. Wonder if it was in Vancouver...?
Probably Liberty ships or Tankers in Portland. They built ships too.
@@debraarbuckle6191 Thanks, good to know.
Outstanding video!
I work in Vancouver and I didn't know this..... and my Dad flew off of CVE Marcus Island.
wow..been in vancouver many times but never knew this history.
Fantastic info. I had no idea
The old saying comes to mind: Whoever knocks at our door with a sword in his hand. Knocks on the wrong door!
It is good to know that we have such a strong ally at our side, as the USA is still the strongest military power on this planet. Greetings from Germany.
This is why I believe we need to focus on LHA production instead of aircraft carriers. We can afford 5 LHA for the price of one aircraft carrier. It would allow us to be in more parts of the world. I still think we absolutely should have aircraft carriers. However I think that if we slowed the pace down by 2 years each after the Kennedy we could use that savings to buy the LHA instead and with a fleet of 30 LHA and 12 aircraft carriers we basically could have far more reach and power projection. In the modern era aircraft carriers are not actually to attack other ships. They’re designed to protect the ships that go with them. So that carrier can prevent your other ships which are carrying tomhawak missiles from being hit. That’s where the actual power is at. Is the ability to be 1,500 miles from a target and hit it with 50 tomahawk missiles.
It would be an even more interesting story of how they built them so quickly, how the designers changed the construction sequence of the ships to enable people with minimal training to build these ships quickly.
Hmmm a small history channel , without a lot of followers , with quality presentation and narration ?? Count me in ;)
If you remember in Normandy there were thousands of ships. Now I have an idea from where those came from.
impressive -- //// maybe vids on names ships which survived etc thanks for vid .....
in my nabors shop down here in depoe bay on the wall is a picture of his dad in the ship yard eating lunch and on the bench is an anvil made from old armor plating
These are heroes.
The pilots of the sunken aircraft carriers were not lost, rather they went to Guadalcanal to supplement the Cactus Air Force.
So the Escort Carrier was to the full sized ones as the Maverick is to the F150! Nice idea!
Back in the day when America wasn't hogtied by idiot bureaucrats, corrupt incompetent politicians and traitorous business leaders.
Bonjour ! I am writing about the map that do show in the vidéo. I will like to know exactly what section of Vancouver région your showing please, it is important for my research. Do you have any pictures of people working there ? or personnel pictures of family working there at the plant ? Merci for your help. Your truly devoted ! S.
If they completed 50 aircraft carriers does that mean they constructed a further 31 between 1944 and the end of the war? That is an astounding achievement if that's true.
My small town built 52 Aircraft Carriers in 14months
I don’t think we could ever mobilize like we use to in ww2 if major conflict broke out again
I personally think that going to the LHD style America class is a better more logical approach for the navy. We can keep the carriers we have but after the John f Kennedy aircraft carrier is complete we should spend the rest of that money to replace our aircraft carriers in the America class LHD. The reason is that we can easily build and buy 30 of these carriers for the same price as the 10 ford class carriers. I think it makes more sense to build a bunch of the LHD ships then to have a few complicated and expensive aircraft carriers.
It’s also just the reality that the Chinese sinking 3 aircraft carriers could be enough to totally disrupt our ability to fight. But sinking 3 of the LHDs after building 30 of them would barely make a dent.
my dad was on the san saba apa 232 also built in vancouver wa
"Hurry Up Henry"
When you Print money , you can do anything .
How a small town became more industrialised in 16 months than Argentina in 50 years, the video.
Great info, people forget...
I mean I respect the workers but the real heroes are the organizers, WHAT WE NEED TODAY Good leaders in Government and business
Was thinking that myself. Back here in the UK our "leaders", industry or government, could not organise a piss up in a brewery.
My mom worked there as a welder.
Great content!
Me and my wife have been up in that tower.
50 carriers Wow!
Fricken amazing!
Fuck, it took me almost the entire video to realize this was Vancouver, WASHINGTON!
Slow, it's mentioned right at the start.
No other country could build all those ships in that time
Today, we would need missles. Lots and lots of missles
My father worked there in 1944 to 1945.
He was 18 in 1944.
He was a Ship Welder.
My uncle was on USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95) when it was sunk in 1945. It was one of those 50 I believe. I really wish I could have met him.
My uncle was also on the Bismarck Sea. He was the chief engineer. He is "still serving".
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Sam, you are correct. CVE-55 to CVE-104 were in that class.
I live in Vancouver WA and at the time I moved here I had no idea that this was where the Casablanca class escort carriers had been built. My dad survived the sinking of the escort carrier St. Lo (CVE-63), sunk by a Kamikaze during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October of 1944.
Thant's amazing, here is a pic of the St. Lo under construction, not sure which one though
imgur.com/a/hoKP794
My Father Kenneth McLaughlin served aboard the USS Gambier Bay until she was sunk in Battle off Samar.
@@markmclaughlin2690 Wow. What a harrowing experience that must have been. If you haven't seen it, I mention the ship in my video ua-cam.com/video/2KjUlM_FDMU/v-deo.html
My great grandfather helped build it, he worked there from 43 - 45
Problem with all aircraft carriers today, those aircraft carriers don't need to travel near enemies are.
Because I am afraid within 25 minutes, unstoppable intercontinental hypersonic nuclear missiles are on their way to each aircraft carriers if US trying to escalate against Russia or China.
Wondering building cost for one unstoppable intercontinental hypersonic nuclear missiles vs one aircraft carriers filled up with weapons and fighter jets.
Unbelievable failure, yes it's huge kamikaze boat's with today's missiles.
Because US don't have Air defence system to stop those hypersonic missiles.
US used billions of dollars in wrong equipment.
US Navy: We need 16 aircraft carriers by January 1944.
Kaiser Shipyard: We can build 18.
Vancouver Shipyard: We built 19.
Let's see you build one in a decade now
Fun fact... In early 1942 Henry Kaiser proposed to the U.S. Navy that he could build 30 escort carriers. The Navy rejected the offer. Undeterred, Kaiser went directly to FDR and proposed to build 100 escort carriers. FDR approved 50. You gotta love a guy like Henry Kaiser who doesn't take "no" for an answer, ups the ante and gets a contract for 50 instead of 30 escort carriers! Check out this short video on the Casablanca escort carriers. Enjoy. ua-cam.com/video/6WSd0ZJuRHg/v-deo.html
As an Australian, I am grateful to not only the U.S.N.......but also to those amazing people at the Vancouver Shipyard for their enormous contribution to the ultimate Victory in the Pacific. Well done America!!!!
Les Griffiths
There is a movie about the life of a Naval Officer who developed the escort carrier concept, Spig Weed.
John Wayne plays him in the movie and John Ford, who was a friend in real life of Spig,
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wings_of_Eagles
Joe from Washougal
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remember that movie, wasnt bad and good to see and example of thinking out of the box
I worked at Newport News Shipyard back in the '90s building nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers and this was one heck of a feat to produce this many carriers in a short period of time, a modern aircraft carrier takes a few years to build alone. They don't call these people the greatest generation for nothing.
I just looked at sat view of the old shipyard. I count 14 slipways, side by side. Wow. Never seen that many in a yard. 14 ships would have been just feet away from each other, in different stages of building all at once.
My grandfather's carrier was from Vancouver, USS Manila Bay. His ship was at the battle for Leyte Gulf and Okinawa. It would have been cool if the government kept at least one Escort carrier as a museum ship after the war.
They may have been small but, if they didn't sink it, Casablanca class carriers made the Yamato turn tail and run. And pirated a U-boat. In both cases they had an assist from destroyer escorts.
True.
Once the planes were in the air it was the threat.
I do not think a Japanese Ship cared if the planes bombing them came off 1 large carrier or 2 small Carriers.
Taffy 3 had THREE destroyers - DDs (including USS Johnston), and four destroyer escorts - DEs (including USS Samuel B. Roberts).
@@HemlockRidge My dad survived the sinking of the Gambier Bay, CVE 73.
@@bradclark2179 Wow. That whole Taffy 3 thing must have been terrifying for the participants.
BOARDED and captured a U-boat. Piracy is a crime under international and most national laws, even in wartime.
A little forgotten history that no one now days care to learn. So much was achieved back then, forgot to mention the great number of female workers that were employed to get the job done. There is no way that could be achieved today.
My mom worked there as an electrician and my young daughter brags that her grandma built aircraft carriers
it could be achieved, with a drastic realignment of our workforce that would take a few years, just like in ww2. but people forget just how many jobs we have that aren't vital in a wartime scenario, that would be quickly phased out in an all out war and the workforce remobilized to build weapons of war, and if you think they don't have plans to do that you're mistaken. but more than likely we would be building drone carriers, and drones in a war like that.
People care
CVE also kmown in the Navy as Combustible-Vulnerable-Expendable
At keast until TAFFY 3 battle off Samar
CVE 81 USS Rudyerd Bay my father served on, she earned 5 Battle Stars, thanks for the story
I look at WW2 and I marvel at the material flow the USA dealt with. It was not that we had better Generals, better Soldiers, or better plans, we had STUFF, lots and lots of STUFF. Never were battles decided on an empty stomach or a complete lack of ammunition or even a pair of stockings to trade for other stuff! That is how we won, we had coffee, steaks, chocolate, car tires, steel, wood, coal, oil, we had so much stuff we shared. Our allies loved our stuff, and so did our former enemies!
During ww2 Americans went above and beyond in factory and on the battlefield. When the Enterprise showed up 2 days after Pearl Harbor was bombed, it took 28 hrs to rearm, refuel and resupply food,etc. It normally took 3days to do this.
The Casablanca "Jeep" carrier "Guadalcanal" (CVE 60) Captained by Daniel V. Gallery was commissioned July, 1943. The carrier, nicknamed "Can-Do", was the first US Navy ship to capture an enemy vessel (U-505) since the War of 1812. The captured German submarine is now on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois.
I worked in the buildings that were in the yards in 1974. Didn’t know about the carrier’s that were being made there.
Great peace. Although I don't know that the Kaiser Carriers ever sported an actual F4F's? Maybe the very earliest few? They were mostly setup with fresh from the factory improved FM-2 Wildcats. Grumman had outsourced Wildcat production to GM, while their own factories were at max capacity making F6F Hellcats. The FM-2 was the improved version of the Wildcat with a bigger engine, complete with a water boost system, a larger tail for better stability and maneuvering, more ammo, split between 4 guns instead of 6, And actual powered landing gear, so the pilot didn't have to hand crank them down while lining up for a carrier landing. Also the Casablanca class was technically using a Merchant Hull design. They were built using the base design plans and power plants of a Kaiser oil tanker. It's just they weren't converted from existing merchant ships, the way many early light and escort carriers were.
Only the early CVEs were converted from merchant hulls, the light carriers were converted from Cleveland class light cruiser hulls. Independence class CVL-22 to CVL-30.
FM2 Wildcats actually engage in dogfights off Okinawa in 1945 because they were there at the right place at the right time. If we knew an air battle was going to happen, we would not be sending our FM2's, but our F4U Corsairs and F6U Hellcats.
Today, this would be analogous of our USMCR F/A-18A's having to face the latest SU-35's.
When was the first aircraft carrier made?
@@orinb8654 The first aircraft carrier was the HMS Argus I believe in early 1918 during World War I.
You can spot the F4Fs by the exposed wheel landing gear. The F6F Wildcats and Avengers were too big.
WOW I didn't know Kaiser built CVE's and at Vancouver no less. I lived in Portland for 5 years and I always thought of Vancouver as a small that you have to go through if you're going or coming from Seattle.
Lol, Vancouver is now 160,000 people or more
I feel bad you live in Portland nice turn downhill
I only knew Vancouver had Burgerville USA
@@KarlDahlquist Back when I was going to Clark College you can get five Hamburgers for a dollar and they had the best ham sandwich out there
@@richardtuholsky4028 Fortunately we left Portland (it was actually Aloha which is a suburb west of Portland) 30 years ago. Downtown Portland was a decent place to go to especially the old town area by the river where they were just starting to rehabilitate some of the old buildings. It's unfortunately how it's turned out.
Thanks for presenting this information. My father served on one of those escort carriers, the USS Kit Kun Bay during WWII. The sailors sometimes referred to the escort carriers as Kaiser coffins due to lighter materials used in their construction. The Kit Kun Bay was hit by a kamikaze crashing on the flight deck, but survived with relatively light damage.
Thanks again.
When the main aircraft carrier have a large and advancing operation in the pacific during world war 2 and the navy wants continous air support in the secured area,this escort carrier is always called in the front line,eventhough have a carrying capacity of just 27, if they make 50 ship thats 1,350 aircraft to support the campaign.
plus they could bring replacement aircraft for the fleet carriers
They should've mantained some as reserve/emergency carriers, with Harriers they could've been very useful in areas where a "normal" carrier couldn't be available
Also, keep in mind, with those 27 aircraft, and their stations near or in the combat areas, these little ships could recover, refuel, rearm and relaunch these airplanes a number of times over the course of several hours. With their ability to generate a number of sorties for each aircraft over a short period of time, the force multiplier these ships provided was punching way way above their weight and size class. Go look up the events of the escort carrier group Taffy 3 when a group of these carriers went toe to toe with the biggest and mightiest battleships and heavy cruisers afloat and not only survived, but stopped the Japanese center force and dished out as much as they were getting. They lost 3 carriers, 2 destroyers and one frigate (destroyer escort) in the battle. It’s a good read.
@@TheRetirednavy92 Their primary intent was to help close the "hole" in aircraft coverage in the Atlantic - which is where most of them ended up.
@@alessiodecarolis The Harrier was DECADES in the future.
Not a viable option, "saving" a carrier for an aircraft that hadn't even been THOUGHT of yet.
While most people would not think logging was an important activity during wartime, the pictures beginning at 2:50 show the great importance of logging and wood production during WW2. I had relatives in Idaho and Montana that were prohibited from enlisting so they could continue logging 6 and 7 days a week.
We literally won the war by outproducing Germany and Japan! Our tanks were inferior to the German's but we produced so many we overwhelmed them in sheer numbers!! A lot to be proud of not sure if it could happen today the men and women of the WW2 ERA were OUR GREATEST GENERATION WITHOUT EXCEPTION!!
Compare that to the Zumwalt class destroyer that was laid down in 2011, commisioned in 2016 and finally accepted into the fleet in 2020 and the cost for three of them exceeds 22 billion dollars.
True, but it is comparing apples and oranges in a way.
One is a bleeding edge technology destroyer in peace time. One is a cheap and cheerful escort in the time of war when everything gets put into getting the job done.
And it's also been a huge lemon after all of that time and money.
What a choice of places to build ships! MOST people don't know that the mouth of the Columbia River, which all the ships had to pass through, is an absolute nightmare to navigate with shoals and sandbars that shift hourly and you have to time the tides just right to get the big ships through. This is why the Columbia river has never developed as a big commercial waterway. But I guess this shows the expediencies of war.
And how absolutely desperate they were for escort carriers! The 1 advantage he didn't mention was that if 1 was sunk you weren't losing as much at once. Resource dispersal. Several squadrons/support personnel per carrier vs 1 squadron per carrier.
on the other hand , it was a good deterrent for any U-boat or other raids ...in ww1 u-boats sailed into Scappa Flow/scotland, in ww2 a u-boat slipped right trough up to the statue of liberty, british commandos raided st nazaire/france, italian mini subs attacked alexandria/egypt...makes sense to make your production area difficult to acces when you have wolfpacks patrolling off your coast
@@jawadad802 My thoughts exactly. It would be rather embarrassing to hit a sand bar in your mini sub than then have the outgoing tide pop you up above water.
The US lost 10,000 pilots and other air crews during TRAINING during WWII. We absorbed losses like we never will again.
@@jawadad802 That certainly explains why it was on the WEST coast. Im not aware of any u-boats that went thru the Panama canal. They certainly would run out of food/fuel going around South America.
My parents worked here in 1943 to 1945, I was born there in 1946. The home land Americans help win the war.
A massive undertaking from everyone involved in the allied campaigns around the globe. We should all celebrate their achievements and without them we wouldn’t be here. It’s a shame we have let the world they freed go to shit with all the political and media bullshit. God bless all involved and again thank you to them for their efforts and sacrifices 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇦🇺 🇳🇿🇮🇳 🇵🇱 and all the other allied countries
And now Biden and Merkel let the west be invaded from within. This will not end well
A suggestion: It would make a lot of sense to include a zooming-in section in the video to show where Vancouver, WA is actually located. Nowadays almost everybody thinks of Vancouvre in Canada whenever "Vancouvre" is mentioned. Besides, it's really important for people to understand where "this can-do small town" is located ---- You wouldn't want people to mistake it for Vancouvre, Canada, would you?
Thank you for your reminder. I thought it was the Canadian city.
its actually Vancouver in Canada and not Vancouvre, and I do understand there is another city with the exact same name in Washington state.
Vancouvre? Q'uest-ce que a Canada?
@@ashtonwalker You are right --- it should be -er, not -re.
@@R.U.1.2. Le Canada est un pays d'Amérique du Nord.
This what yamamoto fear most as he predicted.the moment america mobilized his resources.japan is military doom for defeat.
True.
The US in June 1942 had 3 Fleet carriers and in late 1944 had 25.
It did not matter if the US lost all their ships at Midway , 16 months later they were building the largest navy and airforce in the world no matter how it turned out.
Crazy to think how many times ive drove past that area and probably looked at that dockyard without knowing the history that happened there
ALL CARRIERS WERE BUILT TOO FAST; EXPECT MAJOR PROBLEMS AS A RESULT.
Thank you... I never knew about this. Amazing story. Good job city of Vancouver and a thank you to you too for being part of the war effort. I love these behind the scenes achievements. The forgotten heroes. Good job Sir.
This level of production is what we need to do now, to counter Russia and China. Just build the ships / tanks / planes. Cheap and fast. As many as possible, as soon as possible. Don't need billion-dollar electronic whiz systems. Just hundreds of solid ships and subs that can carry weapons and run radar and sonar. Add the fancy bells and whistles later.
Why do you want to counter Russia? We don't have a proper fleet, no worries, friend.
I lived in Vancouver Washington for over a year, and did not know this about the town. Thanks for the video!
Im in Vancouver too, and theres a ton of amazing history here!!! As a WWII naval history buff, im always suprised how many new things i find about an area that youd think might not have so many tie ins to the war!!