"Vanishing American Air Superiority"
On Mar 19, 4:46*pm, "Keith Willshaw"
wrote:
"Ken S. Tucker" wrote in ...
On Mar 19, 11:04 am, "Keith Willshaw"
wrote:
"Ken S. Tucker" wrote in
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My response is also directed to Mr. Kambic's reply,
concerning logistics.
On Mar 19, 8:59 am, Chris wrote:
On Mar 19, 12:49 am, "Ken S. Tucker" wrote:
An army of 100,000 could easily turn out 1000 barges a day!
Low skill labor, I could organize that.
Man, Ken, you are really unlucky. If you had been born in the 1760's
you would have been a *superstar.* You see, in the 1790's and 1800's
there were a lot of people trying to build lots blue water hulls for
some big wars they had going on at the time. They thought, because of
their hundreds of years of accumulated experience and lifetimes spent
actually building ships, that it required a great deal of time,
specialized materials and highly skilled labor demanding large wages.
If only you had been there with your experience gained doing something
completely different as a hobby, you could have shown them the errors
of their ways. Any navy would have been thrilled with your ability to
produce a sloop or frigate type hull with a hundred unskilled workers
in a single day.
Chris Manteuffel
The Vikings were building sea worthy boats in 900AD,
(I've designed and built boats and helped others do that),
I think Germans could build a landing craft to cross the
ditch, I assigned 1000 man hours to build one, if ya can't
get that done, you deserve to lose the war, (oh yeah).
A 1000 barges a day (on average) covers logistics.
This is a ludicrous claim that only an idiot would make.
You'll need to LEARN how Ford assembled model T's,
(engloshers never understood mass productivity).
Andrew Higgins had a superbly efficient organisation for
building landing craft. He employed 30,000 people directly
and built some 24,000 barges during the course of the
war. This did not include the workforce building and
assembling engines and other mechanical parts. At the
peak of production his yards turned out 700 boats a month.
Well some Engishman is an idiot, SOP, are we to use a 'Higgins"
as some sort of benchmarck?
Higgins was from Louisiana and his yards were around New Orleans
Why don't you try and get something right for a change ?
Keith
Which is why the U.S. WWII/D-Day Museum is in New Orleans.
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