Bombardements

1947 · 62420 — Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1947. 1947 is on front cover 1945 is in GPO line on last page. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. Stamp on front cover blacked over. vi 53 p. Includes illustrations. Tables and Charts. Between March 1945 and the end of the war about one-fourth of the floor space in the commercial shipyards were destroyed by air attacks. The Japanese were unable to restore such facilities or to reorganize procedures so that production could be continued. About 60 percent of the production of naval ships and of merchant ship engines was concentrated among the 5 largests producers of each. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback