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DZH22 said:
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Man, I love those old railroad tracks. I hope they always leave them in place. They really add to the historical context and look of the area. The same goes for cobblestone and brick streets. There are so few of these artifacts left.
 
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Charlie_mta said:
Man, I love those old railroad tracks. I hope they always leave them in place. They really add to the historical context and look of the area. The same goes for cobblestone and brick streets. There are so few of these artifacts left.
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Quite literally, they are the residue of the arsenal of democracy. There, 25-year-old (!) Norman Leventhal, who is on a very short list for greatest Bostonian of the 20th-century, oversaw, as an MIT-trained naval architect, the construction of forty-six destroyer escorts, eleven destroyers, and 3 LSTS.

Meanwhile, just 11 miles across the harbor, Bethlehem Steel constructed 127 LSTS and 100 destroyer escorts.

How was England rescued from the brink of starvation at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic? How was the North African campaign, the Sicily Campaign, and the Normandy Campaign outfitted with the key auxiliary ships to support the battleships, cruisers, destroyers, etc.? By the Boston area's shipbuilding prowess.

"Never before have so many owed so much to so few..."
 
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