The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Shorpy Home Front: Keep 'Em Sailing
APRIL 5, 2017 SHORPY
May 1942 "Twenty-four hours a day the sparks from acetylene torches of steel workers in eight Denver fabricating plants are flying thick and fast that the U.S. Navy may carry the battle to the enemy in all parts of the world.
"Here in secluded Denver, the world's largest city not on a navigable waterway, this war production worker, who has never seen a battleship or ocean, fashions the steel hull parts being assembled at Mare Island Navy Yard in California, 1,200 miles from where he and his fellow workers are on the job to help 'Keep 'em sailing."
OWI, photographer unknown.
Why We Won. --GreGen
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