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Friday 15 December 2017

USA should built transport flying boats instead of cargo ships according to the Dutch newspaper Het volk dated 1 August 1942

An item reported that several experts of the American War Production Board protested against the project of engineer Henry Kaiser.(1) He proposed the US cabinet to instead continued with building cargo ships to chose for 5.000 transport flying boats. According to the experts could the project not be executed while lacking raw materials including chrome. Kaiser tried president Franklin Delano Roosevelt be interest in his project.

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1. Henry John Kaiser (9 May 1882 Sprout Brook, New York, USA-24 August 1967 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA), founder of the modern American shipbuilding. His shipyard at Richmond, California, USA became during the Second World War well known for the extreme fast building of cargo ships, the Liberty and Victory ships. In 1941 reacquired Fleetwings Incorporation renamed Kaiser-Fleetwings, a factory building flying boats.