On the swing shift
Subtitle: building liberty ships in Savannah
By: Tony Cope.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781591141235
Subjects: Liberty ships -- Georgia -- Savannah -- History; Shipbuilding -- Georgia -- Savannah -- History; World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American; Merchant marine -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The "Jim"; title: New York, New York; title: This ship will do us very well; title: If you build it, they will come . . . and build ships; title: Wendy the welder at Southeastern; title: You were a laborer no matter what skills you had; title: If you don't join, you don't work; title: Doing the same thing over and over; title: You can't spell victory with an absent t; title: Who are all these chaps?; title: Fifteen minutes of fame; title: Getting ready for war; title: New York to Great Britain; title: It sounded just like a two-inch fire cracker; title: St. Patrick's Day, 1943; title: A submarine's torpedo ended the career of; title: A mixed blessing; title: Then, as Camelot, it disappeared.