![]() In particular, there was fierce competition for steel plates, needed not only for ship construction, but for tanks, airplanes, and, indeed, almost all weapons of 20th-century warfare. On top of that, the LST construction program competed with other accession programs. More than 30,000 parts went into the construction of one LST, and recreating such a lengthy supply chain took time. ![]() Retooling a shipyard, however, is not a matter of simply throwing a switch. government ordered four American shipyards that had been reconfigured to build destroyers to shift back to the construction of Liberty ships and LSTs. With the German U-boat menace under control (if not entirely suppressed) by late spring 1943, the Allies sought to reinvigorate the LST program. ![]() The decision turned out to be the right one: the new escorts helped turn the tide in the Battle of the Atlantic. ![]()
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