War stimulus: The Japanese threat and rebirth of the North America Pacific Coast shipbuilding industry, 1937-1946

• Chris Madsen ^[1]
  1. [1] Canadian Forces College

     Canadian Forces College

     Canadá

     
• Localización: International journal of maritime history, ISSN 0843-8714, Vol. 33, Nº. 2, 2021, págs. 382-411
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Henry Eccles, in classic studies on logistics, describes the dynamics of strategic procurement in the supply chain stretching from home countries to military theatres of operations. Naval authorities and industrialists concerned with Japanese aggression before and after Pearl Harbor looked towards developing shipbuilding capacity on North America’s Pacific Coast. The region turned into a volume producer of merchant vessels, warships and auxiliaries destined for service in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Shipbuilding involved four broad categories of companies in the United States and Canada that enabled the tremendous production effort.