Henry Kaiser became known during the second World War as the father of modern ship building. He established Kaiser Shipyards and built the Liberty Ships during the war.
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Henry Kaiser was an American industrialist and the owner of Kaiser Shipyard during World War 2. His company made Liberty ships and Victory Ships to aid in the war efforts.
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Your teacher is probably looking for you to answer Henry Kaiser. Henry Ford was also deeply involved but did not build as many ships as Kaiser. William S. Knudsen was one of them. His genius: he was an expert on mass production. If one plane was shot down, for example, Knudsen made sure there was ten to replace it. One tank lost, twenty were being shipped. One ship, fifty. He didn't need to worry about a fighting force, we had some sixteen million serving to defeat Nazi Germany. It was Knudsen's genius to realize what they needed!
When Henry J. Kaiser came up with the idea to replace welding with rivets, the Richmond Shipyard was able to turn out a ship a day, which used to take a month.The fastest destroyer was built in a week.AdditionalLiberty ships were merchant ships produced during WW II. On average 3 of these finished production each day The average time to build them was 42 days nationally, and 2 weeks at Kaiser shipyards. The fastest Liberty ship build was the Robert E. Peary in 4 days, 15 hours, and 29 minutes as a publicity stunt. This was built at Kaiser's Richmond shipyard.
Kaiser Wilhelm was Commander in Chief of the German Military.