This work describes the monumental accomplishments of the World War II shipyards in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington.
These experiences inform and enhance the pages of Her Finest Hour..
His father worked at Albina shipyard, his sister worked at Henry Kaiser\'s Swan Island shipyard, and he himself, as a high school student, worked nights at Commercial Iron and Steel shipyard.
Robert La Du viewed firsthand these activities from his home overlooking shipyards on the Willamette River.
Working twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, they built and launched thousands of vessels--Liberty ships, Victory ships, tankers, aircraft carriers, submarine chasers, and many kinds of landing craft--to help defeat the Axis powers and preserve the way of life of the free world.
This work describes the monumental accomplishments of the World War II shipyards in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington
