How a Civilian Outsmarted Navy Engineers and Built LSTs in Just 8 Weeks
Автор: The Forgotten Battalion
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This video tells the unbelievable but true story of how a civilian with no naval engineering background completely rewrote American shipbuilding during World War II.
The Navy struggled to build LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank) — gigantic beach-landing vessels essential for invading Europe and the Pacific. Traditional shipyards needed six months to complete just one. Production was too slow, too expensive, and too complicated.
Then a civilian engineer stepped in with an idea Navy officials initially dismissed as impossible: modular construction. Instead of building ships from the keel up, he proposed manufacturing large prefabricated sections inland — like giant puzzle pieces — and transporting them to the coast for rapid assembly.
Experts called it reckless. They said alignment would fail, hulls would warp, and the ships would never hold up at sea. But when the first test ship was assembled, the results stunned everyone:
Full assembly time dropped from 180 days to just 8 weeks
Output skyrocketed
LSTs became one of the most mass-produced ships of the war
And the Allies suddenly had the amphibious fleet needed for D-Day, Sicily, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and more
By the end of the war, this one civilian’s “impossible” manufacturing method helped produce over 1,000 LSTs, enabling the largest amphibious operations in human history.
This is the forgotten story of how a single brilliant idea helped win WWII — not with weapons, but with engineering courage.
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