Description
After averaging the finishing touch of lower than two submarines a year within the 1930s, the Portsmouth Navy Yard completed an astonishing thirty-two submarines in 1944 including the simultaneous launching of 3 submarines. The yard built seventy-nine submarines between 1941 and 1945, a fleet that collectively represented thirty-seven percent of the USA submarines built all the way through the war and sank over one third of the Japanese shipping sunk by United States submarines. 32 in ’44 analyzes the criteria in the back of the yard’s record setting submarine production that made the sort of vital contribution to the winning of the war.