Mr. Henry J. Kaiser, right, presents President Franklin D. Roosevelt with a model of the escort carriers that he was constructing at Vancouver, Washington, on 18 March 1943. Kaiser built 50 of these CASABLANCA class carriers CVE-55-104 in 1943-44. [1280×877]
50 is two years – one carrier every 4-weeks. Amazing.
MissPoodle
People from all over the country came to the Portland-Vancouver area during WW2 to work in shipyards here. Kaiser built what was then the 2nd largest city in Oregon, Vanport, for the 40,000 people he hired. 40 percent were African American. It was a 24/7 town built in 1942 and destroyed in a flood in 1948.
![Mr. Henry J. Kaiser, right, presents President Franklin D. Roosevelt with a model of the escort carriers that he was constructing at Vancouver, Washington, on 18 March 1943. Kaiser built 50 of these CASABLANCA class carriers CVE-55-104 in 1943-44. [1280x877]](https://i.redd.it/a3op23ej0sk41.jpg)
ShootingPains
50 is two years – one carrier every 4-weeks. Amazing.
MissPoodle
People from all over the country came to the Portland-Vancouver area during WW2 to work in shipyards here. Kaiser built what was then the 2nd largest city in Oregon, Vanport, for the 40,000 people he hired. 40 percent were African American. It was a 24/7 town built in 1942 and destroyed in a flood in 1948.