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Derrick Van Orden: “The United States of America was producing a ship a day…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Rep. Van Orden Calls for Strengthening of US Defense Industrial Base in HASC Full Committee Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 01:51

Like, they get torpedoed, and they'd break in half because they didn't do the welding job anyway. They fixed that, and then we were producing a ship a day. The United States of America was producing a ship a day [during World War II]. And then was it Himmler figured that out or. No, Goering figured that out, and he's like, we have just lost the war. (01:51–01:54)

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Asserts that the U.S. produced a ship a day during World War II.

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