Why Japan Was Stunned by America’s Floating Machine Shops — Carriers Repaired Faster Than They Could

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Three weeks after Japan surrendered, Admiral Soemu Toyoda was asked why Japan lost the war. He did not say the atomic bomb. He did not say the Marines on the beaches. He said one sentence: "You repaired your ships faster than we could damage them." This is the untold story of the workshops that w