Author: David J Shirlaw
Publisher: SeaWaves Press Inc
ISBN: 1894147081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In 1938 Canada’s navy comprised a handful of ships and barely 1000 personnel with no ship-building industry to speak of. By 1945, Canada’s Navy included 775 vessels and 90,000 personnel. Historians consider the growth and participation of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic and other campaigns as nothing short of remarkable. Little is known of the comparable growth in the shipbuilding industry and its provision of ships of many types to not only the Canadian Navy but the Royal Navy and the United States Navy as well. David Shirlaw’s book is an effort to address that shortfall in the nation's history.
Arsenal of Democracy North: Canadian Naval Shipbuilding of the Second World War
Author: David J Shirlaw
Publisher: SeaWaves Press Inc
ISBN: 1894147081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In 1938 Canada’s navy comprised a handful of ships and barely 1000 personnel with no ship-building industry to speak of. By 1945, Canada’s Navy included 775 vessels and 90,000 personnel. Historians consider the growth and participation of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic and other campaigns as nothing short of remarkable. Little is known of the comparable growth in the shipbuilding industry and its provision of ships of many types to not only the Canadian Navy but the Royal Navy and the United States Navy as well. David Shirlaw’s book is an effort to address that shortfall in the nation's history.
Publisher: SeaWaves Press Inc
ISBN: 1894147081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In 1938 Canada’s navy comprised a handful of ships and barely 1000 personnel with no ship-building industry to speak of. By 1945, Canada’s Navy included 775 vessels and 90,000 personnel. Historians consider the growth and participation of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic and other campaigns as nothing short of remarkable. Little is known of the comparable growth in the shipbuilding industry and its provision of ships of many types to not only the Canadian Navy but the Royal Navy and the United States Navy as well. David Shirlaw’s book is an effort to address that shortfall in the nation's history.
Arsenal of Democracy North
Author: David James Shirlaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781894147071
Category : Shipbuilding industry
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781894147071
Category : Shipbuilding industry
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Charlestown Navy Yard
Author: Stephen P. Carlson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston National Historical Park (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston National Historical Park (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Navy Pier
Author: Douglas Bukowski
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
ISBN: 1461730260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Since 1673 when Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet portaged through the territory that is now Chicago, water transportation has been vital to the city's growth. In the early twentieth century, when Daniel Burnham put together his master plan for the design of Chicago—a plan intended to create a sense of civic virtue—he envisioned a grand municipal pier for public recreation near the central city. Later modified for multiple uses by the Chicago-Harbor Commission, Navy Pier opened in 1916. This glorious extension into Lake Michigan was a feat of engineering not unlike the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, and prompted a similar fascination. In this entertaining history, abundantly illustrated with 75 photographs and 32 color plates, Douglas Bukowski traces the origins and construction of Navy Pier, its "golden era" to 1940, its uses in the World War II home front, its college campus years, and its rediscovery and redevelopment for recreational use from the 1970s to the present. Daniel Burnham's advice to Chicago to "make no little plans" is beautifully captured in this book. A publication of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority of Chicago.
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
ISBN: 1461730260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Since 1673 when Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet portaged through the territory that is now Chicago, water transportation has been vital to the city's growth. In the early twentieth century, when Daniel Burnham put together his master plan for the design of Chicago—a plan intended to create a sense of civic virtue—he envisioned a grand municipal pier for public recreation near the central city. Later modified for multiple uses by the Chicago-Harbor Commission, Navy Pier opened in 1916. This glorious extension into Lake Michigan was a feat of engineering not unlike the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, and prompted a similar fascination. In this entertaining history, abundantly illustrated with 75 photographs and 32 color plates, Douglas Bukowski traces the origins and construction of Navy Pier, its "golden era" to 1940, its uses in the World War II home front, its college campus years, and its rediscovery and redevelopment for recreational use from the 1970s to the present. Daniel Burnham's advice to Chicago to "make no little plans" is beautifully captured in this book. A publication of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority of Chicago.
St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric power
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Considers (82) S.J. Res. 27, (82) S.J. Res. 111.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric power
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Considers (82) S.J. Res. 27, (82) S.J. Res. 111.
World War II in Alaska
Author: L. J. Campbell
Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher: Alaska Northwest Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The American GI in Europe in World War II: The March to D-Day
Author: J. E. Kaufmann
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 081174373X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the U.S. war effort before D-Day. Sidebars on patrols, service troops, the replacement system, Rangers, and more. Based on interviews with more than 200 veterans.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 081174373X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the U.S. war effort before D-Day. Sidebars on patrols, service troops, the replacement system, Rangers, and more. Based on interviews with more than 200 veterans.
Mobilizing U. S. Industry in World War II
Author: Alan L. Gropman
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788136461
Category : Industrial mobilization
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Contents: Mobilization activities before Pearl Harbor day; education for mobilization; interwar planning for industrial mobilization; mobilizing for war: 1939-1941; the war production board; the controlled materials plan; the office of war mobilization & reconversion; U.S. production in World War II; balancing military & civilian needs; overcoming raw material scarcities; maritime construction; people mobilization: Rosie the RiveterÓ; conclusions. Appendix: production of selected munitions items; the war agencies of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788136461
Category : Industrial mobilization
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Contents: Mobilization activities before Pearl Harbor day; education for mobilization; interwar planning for industrial mobilization; mobilizing for war: 1939-1941; the war production board; the controlled materials plan; the office of war mobilization & reconversion; U.S. production in World War II; balancing military & civilian needs; overcoming raw material scarcities; maritime construction; people mobilization: Rosie the RiveterÓ; conclusions. Appendix: production of selected munitions items; the war agencies of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Canada
Author: Frederick George Marcham
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description