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Liberty
the ships that won the war
by Peter Elphick
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Liberty: The Ships That Won the War
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Liberty: The Ships That Won the War
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: PART I: IN THE BEGINNING
1. The Parentage of the Liberty Ship
2. The British Shipbuilding Mission to the United States
3. Birth of the Liberty Ship
4. The Shipyards and their Workers
5. The Naming Game
6. The Wartime Liberty Crews
7. Close to Calamity: the Structural Failure Problem
PART II: THE LIBERTY AT WAR
8. Ubiquity
9. A Liberty versus a German Raider
10. The North Atlantic
11. Liberty Ships and the Northern Route to Russia
12. Liberties and Operation 'Torch'
13. Liberties as Troopships and Animal Transports
14. Liberties in the Mediterranean
15. The Poison Gas Disaster at Bari
16. Liberties and the Allied Salvage Services
17. Normandy and the Campaign in Europe
18. 'Let Sleeping Wrecks Lie': The On-going Saga
of the Richard Montgomery
19. Liberties in the Indian Ocean
20. Liberties in the Pacific
21. The Other Allied Liberties
PART III: AFTER THE WAR
22. The Liberty Ship's Role in-Peacetime
23. Tragedy off Porthcawl: The Loss of the Samtampa
24. Lost without Trace
25. More Post-war Disasters, Trials and Tribulations
26. The Last Years of the Trading Liberties
27. Treasure Hunt
28. The Surviving Liberties
Appendices
Bibliography
Abbreviations
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 490-497)and index.
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