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How American Engineers Built a Floating Dry Dock in 5 Days — Then Axis Ships Never Docked Again

What if one of the greatest engineering miracles of World War II didn’t happen in a shipyard, but on a remote Pacific island—built by exhausted men, scavenged steel, and five days of pure determination?
In 1943, a catastrophic structural failure destroyed the U.S. Navy’s main floating dry dock at Espiritu Santo, crippling repair capacity across the South Pacific. Japanese strategists believed this single accident would stall the American fleet for months.
They were wrong.
Commander William Gentry and a rag-tag force of Seabees, welders, engineers, and civilian contractors did the impossible: they built a fully functional dry dock from wreckage, scrap metal, pontoons, and improvisation—working through tropical storms, air raid warnings, and brutal heat. In five days, they restored America’s ability to repair warships on the front line.
This is the untold story of the logistical miracle that kept U.S. destroyers, cruisers, and carriers alive—and shattered the Axis belief that destroying American infrastructure would ever slow them down.
A story of ingenuity, industrial willpower, and the ordinary men who quietly kept the Pacific War running.