Vancouver, WA shipyard

[spence]

Vancouver, WA lies across the Columbia River from Portland, OR. During WW2 Kaiser Industries had a shipyard there as well as in Portland. This article was in the paper this morning:

http://www.columbian.com/news/2017/oct/ ... -families/

There's a bunch of photos but don't know if everybody here can look at them

[spence]

From the article (not sure this is gonna work):

[m10bob]

Looks great, thank you..

[bobdina]

Thanks for posting, some good pics of CVE's in the article .

[dave sindel]

great stuff - thanks for the link

[Yaab]

ORIGINAL: spence

From the article (not sure this is gonna work):

Midnight oil.

[wdolson]

At a party once someone was opining on how the Japanese would have won the war if they had won the Battle of Midway. I pointed out more deck capacity was built in Vancouver alone than Japan has ever built. They were CVEs and not built for carrier to carrier combat, but they did free up the fleet carriers to hunt the big game when it popped its head up.

Have you ever been to the McMennimins down there where the shipyard used to be? They have some WW II vintage photos of the shipyard on the walls.

Bill

[rustysi]

ORIGINAL: wdolson

At a party once someone was opining on how the Japanese would have won the war if they had won the Battle of Midway. I pointed out more deck capacity was built in Vancouver alone than Japan has ever built. They were CVEs and not built for carrier to carrier combat, but they did free up the fleet carriers to hunt the big game when it popped its head up.

Have you ever been to the McMennimins down there where the shipyard used to be? They have some WW II vintage photos of the shipyard on the walls.

Bill

On the other coast you had, Bath, Maine. IIRC it alone built more DD's than the entire Japanese empire.

[geofflambert]

Taffy 3 at the battle off Samar sank a good deal of tonnage.

[Zorch]

How many CV/CVL/CVEs could the US have built instead of the 6 Alaska BCs? (Only 2 of which were completed)

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Taffy 3 at the battle off Samar sank a good deal of tonnage.

They did have some help from aircraft of Taffys 1 and 2 which were also fleeing south.

[m10bob]

Nice pics.