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When Japan’s naval commanders sneered at America’s “rust-bucket shipyards,” they didn’t realize that the true weapon was not the biggest battleship, but the unstoppable flood of steel produced by the Liberty ship. Between 1941 and 1945 the United States built 2,710 Liberty Ships, turning industrial power into decisive maritime logistics and literally overwhelming the Japanese Navy’s strategy of qualitative superiority.

In this video we dig into how American shipyards—from the sprawling complexes led by Henry J. Kaiser and his assembly-line innovation—transformed cargo vessels into a strategic weapon, while the Japanese believed their doctrine of the “decisive fleet” would carry the day. We trace the journey from mocking ridiculed U.S. yard labour, to the moment when the Japanese supply lines broke, their island empire began to starve, and the Liberty Ships became the unsung heroes of victory.

You’ll learn:

Why the Liberty Ships were conceived as a crash industrial programme in the face of deadly submarine and surface attacks.

How U.S. shipyards slashed construction times and built dozens of ships every month—while Japan’s smaller navy remained reliant on slower, cost-lier warships.

The hidden war of logistics: how moving fuel, ammunition, food and equipment across the Pacific and Atlantic turned into the real battleground. The Liberty Ships were the backbone of that sealift.

How Japanese commanders’ laughter at American production efficiency turned to alarm when the sheer number and reliability of these ships broke the Japanese blockade and choked their empire.

The legacy of the Liberty Ships: how mass-production, industrial organisation, and American maritime power redefined naval warfare for the 20th century and beyond.

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