Her Finest Hour Shipbuilding In The Portland Area During World War Ii

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This work describes the monumental accomplishments of the World War II shipyards in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. Working twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, they built and launched thousands of vessels—Liberty ships, Victory ships, tankers, aircraft carriers, submarine chasers, and many kinds of landing craft—to help defeat the Axis powers and preserve the way of life of the free world. Robert La Du viewed firsthand these activities from his home overlooking shipyards on the Willamette River. His father worked at Albina shipyard, his sister worked at Henry Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard, and he himself, as a high school student, worked nights at Commercial Iron and Steel shipyard. These experiences inform and enhance the pages of Her Finest Hour.

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Genre : History
Author : Robert La Du
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Release : 2017-01-05
File : 166 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781683488019


Her Finest Hour

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This work describes the monumental accomplishments of the World War II shipyards in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. Working twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, they built and launched thousands of vessels--Liberty ships, Victory ships, tankers, aircraft carriers, submarine chasers, and many kinds of landing craft--to help defeat the Axis powers and preserve the way of life of the free world. Robert La Du viewed firsthand these activities from his home overlooking shipyards on the Willamette River. His father worked at Albina shipyard, his sister worked at Henry Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard, and he himself, as a high school student, worked nights at Commercial Iron and Steel shipyard. These experiences inform and enhance the pages of Her Finest Hour.

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Genre : History
Author : Robert R La Du
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Release : 2016-12-02
File : 174 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1683488008


Her Finest Hour

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Genre : Portland (Or.)
Author : Robert R. La Du
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Release : 2014
File : 89 Pages
ISBN-13 : OCLC:890980652


Fleeting Opportunities

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This book tells the story of the daily lives of women industrial workers in World War II shipyards. It focuses on their struggle against the persistence of occupational segregation, the sexual and racial hierarchy of the shipyard work force, and the pervasive emphasis on female sexuality which served as a constant reminder that women were transient and marginal imposters. In addition, Fleeting Opportunities demonstrates that despite the myth that these women yearned to return to their kitchens, in fact many wanted to continue using their wartime skills in the postwar period. However, finding themselves excluded from jobs by union and management, those who continued to work ended up in low-paying, predominantly female occupations.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Amy Kesselman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Release : 2016-02-24
File : 214 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781438408859


Bath Iron Works

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Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
Author : Ralph Linwood Snow
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Release : 1987
File : 696 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015013832285


To Eliminate Pacific Coast Shipbuilding Cost Differential Part 2

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries
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Release : 1960
File : 288 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105119545460


Hearings

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Author : United States. Congress. House
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Release : 1960
File : 2274 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:35112104239688


Hearings

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
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Release : 1960
File : 1182 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015018401573


The Log

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Genre : Marine engineering
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Release : 1943-07
File : 950 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105015338309


Dictionary Of American Naval Fighting Ships

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Genre : Warships
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Release : 1969
File : 780 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:30000139871622