Brooks Rowlett wrote:
SNIP
“….from Pearl Harbor to the war’s end, 82 destroyers were built
and delivered – about 25 percent of all destroyers built for the Navy
during the war. During the same period, Japanes shipyards built only
63 destroyers. The Bath Iron Works alone outproduced the Japanese
empire.”
SNIP

That’s one of the more amazing WW2 statistics I’ve seen.

John Snyder
John_Snyder@bbs.macnexus.org