stricklineltd

Well, you can see the airmen posing by their warplanes, and you can see the bombers flying in formation, and you can see them dodging the flak to get to the target, but only photos such as this one make you realize what warfare does to us. Enormous losses of capital investments take place in the blink of an eye. Where do you even begin sorting out a ruin like this one?

That's the question I was going to ask, "How do you recover from this tangled mess?"

The photo shows the staggering engineering which went into making ships. Each rivet needed a hole drilled to accomodate it. Then red hot rivets were shoved in and flattened over. That's aside from the actual cutting and shaping of each plate - every single one was different. All that but before they could do it they had to melt steel to make sheet. To make steel they had to mine ores and fuels.. The process of ship building is an incredible story from start to finish.

I'm impressed with those tower cranes which took much more skill to operate than the newer ones. I really appreciate these photos and I sent a link to a retired US navy sailor so he could appreciate this site too. Thanks.

Doug D Thanks for your kind words and for helping to promote the collections. We're really glad that you like the photos.