So Kaiser did what Americans always do when confronted with the impossible. He put it on his shoulders and said, let's go do it. Kaiser had never made a ship in his life. but that wasn't going to stop him. First, he built shipyards all up and down the Pacific Coast. Then he filled them with American workers, 250,000 of them. (18:27–18:30)
CLAIM
Asserts that Henry Kaiser had no prior experience in shipbuilding before his wartime efforts.
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