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		ls612 on April 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In Pursuit of PPE It took a while for the US to get the war production really going during the war. Logistics and production was a mess in 1942 and it wasn’t really until 1944 that they were pumping out dozens of carriers and hundreds of liberty ships a year.

bb611 on April 18, 2020 [–]

The US completed 542 liberty ships in 1942, and 1943 was their peak production year: https://www.mathscinotes.com/2018/05/liberty-ship-production...

They reduced liberty ship production in 1944 to produce warships (which are more complex and were produced in much lower numbers)

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