February 11, 2025 • 17 mins
On this episode of Our American Stories, teacher, organist, choir director, Our American Stories listener, and World War II history buff Anne Clare shares the story of how a small town on the West Coast changed the course of history.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is Lee Habib and this is our American Stories,
and we tell stories about everything here on this show,
including yours. Send them to our American Stories dot com.
Up next a story from our regular contributor Anne Claire
and as a teacher, organist, and choir director, he's also
a World War II history buff. You can find her
(00:32):
stories at the naptimeauthor dot WordPress dot com. Up next
to story on the Bremerton Naval Yards in Washington. Here's
Anne to tell the story.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
On October thirtieth, nineteen forty, Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a
campaign speech in Boston in which he said, I have said.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
This before, but I shall say it. A game and
a game and a game, your boys, I'm not going
to be sent into any foreign wak.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Of course, with hindsight, we know that didn't last more
than a year, because we.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Interrupt this broadcast bringing this important bulloking from the United
Press Flash Washington, A White House announces Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
However you look at it, this was a huge change,
a huge impactful event in American history. It had a
profound impact on really everybody in the country, but in
different places. It hit differently. One place that had a
really interesting historical connection with the whole Pearl Harbor attack
(01:58):
and with the way World War Two would change the
US is the town of Bremerton in the state of Washington. Now,
Bremerton's not a big metropolis. In fact, it largely grew
because of some navy connections. It's across Puget Sound from Seattle.
(02:22):
It's on the Kitsap Peninsula, which is a little peninsula
sticking out from the larger Olympic Peninsula. And since it's
on Puget Sound, it does have access to the Pacific Ocean,
which is why in eighteen ninety one it was picked
to be the site for the Puget Sound Naval Station,
(02:43):
which was the first naval establishment in the Northwest, which
was a pretty big deal because at that point, if
US ships needed major work, they would have to go
all the way down to Mayor Island in California, or
they'd have to go all the way up to British Columbia.
So this gave a facility where American ships could be
(03:04):
tended on American soil. Now, over the years, the yard
grew and changed significantly. Back in nineteen twenty eight, it
had work on the very first US aircraft carriers, the
Saratoga and the Lexington. Actually, the Saratoga spent enough time
(03:24):
in Puget Sound that eventually got the nickname Sarah from
the workers there. And as the fleet was authorized to
build up by Congress in nineteen thirty four, there was
more work again in the yard for the people who
were there. On the invasion of Poland in nineteen thirty nine,
FDR declared a limited national emergency and they dug more
(03:50):
dry docks for ships and expanded the ones that were
there and began preparing to be able to build ships themselves.
They also became involved in something called deperming. See once
Germany went to war with Britain, Germany started mining British
shipping lanes, and they'd used magnetized mines, which of course
(04:10):
is a problem for any ship that's going through those areas.
So one of the jobs that was done in the
shipyard area was creating these big electromagnetic coils that would
actually demagnetize the hulls of ships so they wouldn't attract
mines ideally. Also, the battleships of the US Pacific Fleet
(04:34):
were getting overhauled and repaired during this time, which kept
about six thousand employees very busy. Now, the first real
look at war that Bremerton got, the first first hand look,
as it were, was actually through a foreign visitor. The
yard hosted the HMS Warspite in the summer of nineteen
(04:54):
forty one. This British ship had been pretty badly beaten
up in the Mediterranean had limped its way across the
Pacific to Bremerton, which was kind of exciting for the citizens.
They got to host these British sailors, and a lot
of them invited them into their homes and tried to
show them hospitality and were naturally also very curious about
(05:16):
the ship. Though the Warspike kept up pretty strong security,
even stronger than the shipyard itself had had in past days,
because times were changing. But still, even though it was
a look at war, a look at people who'd experienced it,
war still felt fairly far away until December. December seventh
(05:41):
in Bremerton is, according to memories of people who were there,
pretty nice day for December and the Pacific Northwest. People
were working on houses, coming home from church, out and
about with friends, going to their jobs when word came
through that Pearl Harbor had been hit, and unlike some
(06:02):
different parts of the country that were farther away from Hawaii,
Pearl Harbor was not an entirely unfamiliar name to the
people in Bremerton, and it was a bit of a
shock because while Hawaii mileage wise is still a good
distance away, just geographically, it felt uncomfortably like, I guess
(06:24):
you could say, like a neighbor had been hit. And
they wondered, the people of the area wondered if they
might be next in line. Bremerton the yard is where
the damaged ships would come. They had the facility, the
only place on the West coast really that would be
able to repair any damaged battleships. So as soon as
(06:44):
word came out that Pearl had been hit, people started
looking to the skies. They were concerned.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And you're listening to Anne Claire, who's a teacher, an organist,
and a choir director, but she's also one heck of
a World War to expert and buff when we come
back more of this remarkable story of Bremerton Naval Yards.
These kinds of stories happened all around this country as
the arsenal of democracy was put into high gear. More
(07:14):
of this remarkable story. Anne Claire telling the story of
Bremerton Naval Yards. Here on our American Stories. Folks, if
you love the stories we tell about this great country,
and especially the stories of America's rich past, know that
(07:36):
all of our stories about American history, from war to innovation,
culture and faith are brought to us by the great
folks at Hillsdale College, a place where students study all
the things that are beautiful in life and all the
things that are good in life. And if you can't
get to Hillsdale, Hillsdale will come to you with their
free and terrific online courses. Go to Hillsdale dot edu
(07:56):
to learn more. And we returned to our American Stories
and the story of the Bremerton Naval Yards with Anne Clair.
When we last left off, the people of Bremerton, Washington,
(08:18):
where the Bremerton Naval Yard sits, had just found out
that Pearl Harbor had been hit and big changes to
this town were imminent. Here again is Anne Claire to
tell the rest of the story.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
There were a lot of changes. People tell stories of
changes in the faery routes because back in those days,
just like now, there were fairies back and forth from
Bremerton to Seattle quite frequently. One person wrote about hearing
shots while he was running the ferry home and walking
out to see a rifleman standing on the front of
(08:56):
the boat firing into the water. Because if there reminds
Puget Sound, he hoped that they'd get detonated. The warspite,
which was still docked in the yard, was turned around
to face seaward, and every afternoon four pm it would
be disconnected from all of the lines that connected it
to the land and all buttoned up just in case
(09:17):
they had to go into some sort of combat situation.
They started parking barges in front of the different dry
docks to try and put up some sort of barrier
to protect the ships that were being repaired. Barrels of
water and boxes of sand and rakes were put up
around the shipyard. Tape crisscrosses were put on windows just
(09:37):
in case blasts might blow out the glass, and people
started looking for ways to create air aid shelters as well.
There were basements of some buildings that would serve, but
also just in case people couldn't get to them in time.
Old ship boilers were brought out and cut in half
to make sort of dome shaped shelters that at least
(09:58):
according to the signs on them, could get thirty people
inside and give them some sort of protection in case
the bombs started falling. It was just lots and lots
of planning in a short time as everyone tried to
figure out what we do if the Japanese came, if
the invasion happened. The invasion by the Japanese, of course,
(10:24):
we know, did not come to Washington State. The invasion
that did come was of the US Army. Actually, a
week after Pearl Harbor on December fourteenth, lots of Army
trucks started rolling into Bremerton, which was quite another big
change for this navy town, and tents cropped up in
(10:45):
play fields and in parks, and soldiers were sleeping in
people's barns or garages or finding lodging in different houses
and filled up in a lot of the space. And
that was also amplified a couple of weeks later when
the three hundred and third Barrage Balloon Battalion rolled into
(11:06):
town as well. If you've seen pictures of Britain during
World War Two, you might have seen pictures of those
big silvery balloons floating above London or at the beaches.
Also when we were doing different invasions in Europe and things,
barrage balloons were designed in Britain. These ones were actually
(11:28):
created in the US, and the idea was that these
balloons with the long steel cables coming down from them,
would actually stop planes from dive bombing or planes tried
to dive bomb The cables could sheer off the wings
of the planes and it would provide protection to the
ground area. So Bremerton was full of barrage balloons. Wherever
(11:50):
they could find a good open space to plant one,
they planted one. But the barrage balloons were an interesting
addition to the town. They also caused some problems because
if a high wind came up and they weren't able
to bring the barrage balloons down in time, they might
snap their cables and go flying off. There's quite a
few stories of barush balloon cables taking out chimneys or
(12:14):
power lines. And since the barrage balloons also were flammable,
there was one unfortunate incident in nineteen forty three where
one actually blew on the ground and injured seven soldiers.
Who were taking care of it, one of them critically.
So all these precautions, all of these different things to
(12:36):
protect Burmerton were changing the whole landscape of life in
this town. Add to that fact, to the fact that
the shipyard itself was trying to amp up its number
of employees because there was a lot of work coming
in the town itself was getting so full that there's
stories from people working at the YMCA during this time
(12:59):
that they'd have to just go and set up cots
on the gym floor, one hundred cots in the gym,
and they'd all be rented out. They'd have people actually
reserving seats just for a place to sleep in a
place to keep their belongings while they were looking for
more permanent lodgings, putting the cover on the pool table
at night and having a couple guys jump up on
there and use that as a bed. I heard stories
(13:20):
of hotels actually renting out one bed to three different people,
and one person would be working the first shift, and
then they'd go off to work, and then the next
person would come and sleep, and they'd have the next
shift and they'd go off to work, and then the
next person could use the bed while they were off
of work. As the shipyard was looking for workers, they
just couldn't seem to fill the slots quickly enough and
(13:43):
no matter how full the town was getting, and so
teenagers in town were recruited too for different jobs, which
worked out kind of well because the city was so
crowded that the schools couldn't actually hold all of their
students at one time, So the students were going to
school in the public schools at least in two shifts.
Half of the students went in the morning, half went
(14:03):
in the afternoon. So there was a certain amount of
time for outside employment as well for the kids, and
it was a very, very busy time for everybody. The
yard was keeping busy with a lot of different projects.
Of course, there was ship building and there was refitting
(14:25):
other things. But two days before the end of nineteen
forty one, the first Pearl Harbor ghosts arrived in the yard,
and that was a pretty significant event. The ship this
ghost ship wasn't really a ghost, but Japan had reported
that five US battleships were sunk during the attack on
(14:45):
Pearl Harbor, which actually the US was able to salvage
get back to Bremerton repair and put back into the fight.
The first of these ghosts is they were joking renamed
since the ships have been declared dead and hour back
out and about was the USS Tennessee and it was
sailing under its own power, even though it had been
battered by bomb hits and also by debris from the
(15:08):
USS Arizona's explosion. The next day, December thirtieth, the USS
Maryland made it into port as well. The ship yard
took a break from lots of other projects and put
people to work on it because we desperately needed ships
in the Pacific, and they were actually able to turn
those ships around, get them repaired, and get them ready
(15:29):
to fight, and upgrade it as well. In just fifty
three days, the Maryland and the Tennessee had sailed back out.
In February, the Saratoga, the aircraft carrier was back at
the shipyard too because it had been hit by a
torpedo not during Pearl Harbor, but on January eleventh, and
then by May one, the third Pearl Harbor ghost, the
(15:51):
USS Nevada, had made it to the shipyard. Just to
give some perspective on the level of damage on these ships,
it took about seven hundred thousand hours to get the
Nevada ready to go into the fight again. The last
two Pearl Harbor ghosts to show up were the USS
California and the USS West Virginia. They had been damaged
the most, and they had been sunk and flooded and
(16:14):
full of silty soil and in need of quite a
lot of work. But eventually they were all turned back
into the fight. And these five ships were not at
all the only ones that the yard worked on during
World War Two. All these workers and all these employees
coming in and teaming up to work together to repair
(16:36):
and equip these ships did a tremendous job. They were
about thirty two thousand and five hundred employees in this workforce,
and during the World War II period they built fifty
new ships and repaired three hundred and sixty three, which
was a pretty tremendous aid to the American war effort.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
And a special thanks to Monte Montgomery for the production
on that piece, and a special thanks to Anne Claire
who's a teacher, an organist, and a choir director, but
he's also a World War two history buff and we
love having our World War II and history contributors be
from all walks of life. You don't have to have
a PhD in history to know history or tell stories
about it. And my goodness, fifty new ships. That's a
(17:24):
crazy number of ships, folks. The story in a way
of the Arsenal Democracy, the story of Bremerton Naval Yard.
Here on our American story.
This is Lee Habib and this is our American Stories,
and we tell stories about everything here on this show,
including yours. Send them to our American Stories dot com.
Up next a story from our regular contributor Anne Claire
and as a teacher, organist, and choir director, he's also
a World War II history buff. You can find her
(00:32):
stories at the naptimeauthor dot WordPress dot com. Up next
to story on the Bremerton Naval Yards in Washington. Here's
Anne to tell the story.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
On October thirtieth, nineteen forty, Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a
campaign speech in Boston in which he said, I have said.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
This before, but I shall say it. A game and
a game and a game, your boys, I'm not going
to be sent into any foreign wak.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Of course, with hindsight, we know that didn't last more
than a year, because we.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Interrupt this broadcast bringing this important bulloking from the United
Press Flash Washington, A White House announces Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
However you look at it, this was a huge change,
a huge impactful event in American history. It had a
profound impact on really everybody in the country, but in
different places. It hit differently. One place that had a
really interesting historical connection with the whole Pearl Harbor attack
(01:58):
and with the way World War Two would change the
US is the town of Bremerton in the state of Washington. Now,
Bremerton's not a big metropolis. In fact, it largely grew
because of some navy connections. It's across Puget Sound from Seattle.
(02:22):
It's on the Kitsap Peninsula, which is a little peninsula
sticking out from the larger Olympic Peninsula. And since it's
on Puget Sound, it does have access to the Pacific Ocean,
which is why in eighteen ninety one it was picked
to be the site for the Puget Sound Naval Station,
(02:43):
which was the first naval establishment in the Northwest, which
was a pretty big deal because at that point, if
US ships needed major work, they would have to go
all the way down to Mayor Island in California, or
they'd have to go all the way up to British Columbia.
So this gave a facility where American ships could be
(03:04):
tended on American soil. Now, over the years, the yard
grew and changed significantly. Back in nineteen twenty eight, it
had work on the very first US aircraft carriers, the
Saratoga and the Lexington. Actually, the Saratoga spent enough time
(03:24):
in Puget Sound that eventually got the nickname Sarah from
the workers there. And as the fleet was authorized to
build up by Congress in nineteen thirty four, there was
more work again in the yard for the people who
were there. On the invasion of Poland in nineteen thirty nine,
FDR declared a limited national emergency and they dug more
(03:50):
dry docks for ships and expanded the ones that were
there and began preparing to be able to build ships themselves.
They also became involved in something called deperming. See once
Germany went to war with Britain, Germany started mining British
shipping lanes, and they'd used magnetized mines, which of course
(04:10):
is a problem for any ship that's going through those areas.
So one of the jobs that was done in the
shipyard area was creating these big electromagnetic coils that would
actually demagnetize the hulls of ships so they wouldn't attract
mines ideally. Also, the battleships of the US Pacific Fleet
(04:34):
were getting overhauled and repaired during this time, which kept
about six thousand employees very busy. Now, the first real
look at war that Bremerton got, the first first hand look,
as it were, was actually through a foreign visitor. The
yard hosted the HMS Warspite in the summer of nineteen
(04:54):
forty one. This British ship had been pretty badly beaten
up in the Mediterranean had limped its way across the
Pacific to Bremerton, which was kind of exciting for the citizens.
They got to host these British sailors, and a lot
of them invited them into their homes and tried to
show them hospitality and were naturally also very curious about
(05:16):
the ship. Though the Warspike kept up pretty strong security,
even stronger than the shipyard itself had had in past days,
because times were changing. But still, even though it was
a look at war, a look at people who'd experienced it,
war still felt fairly far away until December. December seventh
(05:41):
in Bremerton is, according to memories of people who were there,
pretty nice day for December and the Pacific Northwest. People
were working on houses, coming home from church, out and
about with friends, going to their jobs when word came
through that Pearl Harbor had been hit, and unlike some
(06:02):
different parts of the country that were farther away from Hawaii,
Pearl Harbor was not an entirely unfamiliar name to the
people in Bremerton, and it was a bit of a
shock because while Hawaii mileage wise is still a good
distance away, just geographically, it felt uncomfortably like, I guess
(06:24):
you could say, like a neighbor had been hit. And
they wondered, the people of the area wondered if they
might be next in line. Bremerton the yard is where
the damaged ships would come. They had the facility, the
only place on the West coast really that would be
able to repair any damaged battleships. So as soon as
(06:44):
word came out that Pearl had been hit, people started
looking to the skies. They were concerned.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
And you're listening to Anne Claire, who's a teacher, an organist,
and a choir director, but she's also one heck of
a World War to expert and buff when we come
back more of this remarkable story of Bremerton Naval Yards.
These kinds of stories happened all around this country as
the arsenal of democracy was put into high gear. More
(07:14):
of this remarkable story. Anne Claire telling the story of
Bremerton Naval Yards. Here on our American Stories. Folks, if
you love the stories we tell about this great country,
and especially the stories of America's rich past, know that
(07:36):
all of our stories about American history, from war to innovation,
culture and faith are brought to us by the great
folks at Hillsdale College, a place where students study all
the things that are beautiful in life and all the
things that are good in life. And if you can't
get to Hillsdale, Hillsdale will come to you with their
free and terrific online courses. Go to Hillsdale dot edu
(07:56):
to learn more. And we returned to our American Stories
and the story of the Bremerton Naval Yards with Anne Clair.
When we last left off, the people of Bremerton, Washington,
(08:18):
where the Bremerton Naval Yard sits, had just found out
that Pearl Harbor had been hit and big changes to
this town were imminent. Here again is Anne Claire to
tell the rest of the story.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
There were a lot of changes. People tell stories of
changes in the faery routes because back in those days,
just like now, there were fairies back and forth from
Bremerton to Seattle quite frequently. One person wrote about hearing
shots while he was running the ferry home and walking
out to see a rifleman standing on the front of
(08:56):
the boat firing into the water. Because if there reminds
Puget Sound, he hoped that they'd get detonated. The warspite,
which was still docked in the yard, was turned around
to face seaward, and every afternoon four pm it would
be disconnected from all of the lines that connected it
to the land and all buttoned up just in case
(09:17):
they had to go into some sort of combat situation.
They started parking barges in front of the different dry
docks to try and put up some sort of barrier
to protect the ships that were being repaired. Barrels of
water and boxes of sand and rakes were put up
around the shipyard. Tape crisscrosses were put on windows just
(09:37):
in case blasts might blow out the glass, and people
started looking for ways to create air aid shelters as well.
There were basements of some buildings that would serve, but
also just in case people couldn't get to them in time.
Old ship boilers were brought out and cut in half
to make sort of dome shaped shelters that at least
(09:58):
according to the signs on them, could get thirty people
inside and give them some sort of protection in case
the bombs started falling. It was just lots and lots
of planning in a short time as everyone tried to
figure out what we do if the Japanese came, if
the invasion happened. The invasion by the Japanese, of course,
(10:24):
we know, did not come to Washington State. The invasion
that did come was of the US Army. Actually, a
week after Pearl Harbor on December fourteenth, lots of Army
trucks started rolling into Bremerton, which was quite another big
change for this navy town, and tents cropped up in
(10:45):
play fields and in parks, and soldiers were sleeping in
people's barns or garages or finding lodging in different houses
and filled up in a lot of the space. And
that was also amplified a couple of weeks later when
the three hundred and third Barrage Balloon Battalion rolled into
(11:06):
town as well. If you've seen pictures of Britain during
World War Two, you might have seen pictures of those
big silvery balloons floating above London or at the beaches.
Also when we were doing different invasions in Europe and things,
barrage balloons were designed in Britain. These ones were actually
(11:28):
created in the US, and the idea was that these
balloons with the long steel cables coming down from them,
would actually stop planes from dive bombing or planes tried
to dive bomb The cables could sheer off the wings
of the planes and it would provide protection to the
ground area. So Bremerton was full of barrage balloons. Wherever
(11:50):
they could find a good open space to plant one,
they planted one. But the barrage balloons were an interesting
addition to the town. They also caused some problems because
if a high wind came up and they weren't able
to bring the barrage balloons down in time, they might
snap their cables and go flying off. There's quite a
few stories of barush balloon cables taking out chimneys or
(12:14):
power lines. And since the barrage balloons also were flammable,
there was one unfortunate incident in nineteen forty three where
one actually blew on the ground and injured seven soldiers.
Who were taking care of it, one of them critically.
So all these precautions, all of these different things to
(12:36):
protect Burmerton were changing the whole landscape of life in
this town. Add to that fact, to the fact that
the shipyard itself was trying to amp up its number
of employees because there was a lot of work coming
in the town itself was getting so full that there's
stories from people working at the YMCA during this time
(12:59):
that they'd have to just go and set up cots
on the gym floor, one hundred cots in the gym,
and they'd all be rented out. They'd have people actually
reserving seats just for a place to sleep in a
place to keep their belongings while they were looking for
more permanent lodgings, putting the cover on the pool table
at night and having a couple guys jump up on
there and use that as a bed. I heard stories
(13:20):
of hotels actually renting out one bed to three different people,
and one person would be working the first shift, and
then they'd go off to work, and then the next
person would come and sleep, and they'd have the next
shift and they'd go off to work, and then the
next person could use the bed while they were off
of work. As the shipyard was looking for workers, they
just couldn't seem to fill the slots quickly enough and
(13:43):
no matter how full the town was getting, and so
teenagers in town were recruited too for different jobs, which
worked out kind of well because the city was so
crowded that the schools couldn't actually hold all of their
students at one time, So the students were going to
school in the public schools at least in two shifts.
Half of the students went in the morning, half went
(14:03):
in the afternoon. So there was a certain amount of
time for outside employment as well for the kids, and
it was a very, very busy time for everybody. The
yard was keeping busy with a lot of different projects.
Of course, there was ship building and there was refitting
(14:25):
other things. But two days before the end of nineteen
forty one, the first Pearl Harbor ghosts arrived in the yard,
and that was a pretty significant event. The ship this
ghost ship wasn't really a ghost, but Japan had reported
that five US battleships were sunk during the attack on
(14:45):
Pearl Harbor, which actually the US was able to salvage
get back to Bremerton repair and put back into the fight.
The first of these ghosts is they were joking renamed
since the ships have been declared dead and hour back
out and about was the USS Tennessee and it was
sailing under its own power, even though it had been
battered by bomb hits and also by debris from the
(15:08):
USS Arizona's explosion. The next day, December thirtieth, the USS
Maryland made it into port as well. The ship yard
took a break from lots of other projects and put
people to work on it because we desperately needed ships
in the Pacific, and they were actually able to turn
those ships around, get them repaired, and get them ready
(15:29):
to fight, and upgrade it as well. In just fifty
three days, the Maryland and the Tennessee had sailed back out.
In February, the Saratoga, the aircraft carrier was back at
the shipyard too because it had been hit by a
torpedo not during Pearl Harbor, but on January eleventh, and
then by May one, the third Pearl Harbor ghost, the
(15:51):
USS Nevada, had made it to the shipyard. Just to
give some perspective on the level of damage on these ships,
it took about seven hundred thousand hours to get the
Nevada ready to go into the fight again. The last
two Pearl Harbor ghosts to show up were the USS
California and the USS West Virginia. They had been damaged
the most, and they had been sunk and flooded and
(16:14):
full of silty soil and in need of quite a
lot of work. But eventually they were all turned back
into the fight. And these five ships were not at
all the only ones that the yard worked on during
World War Two. All these workers and all these employees
coming in and teaming up to work together to repair
(16:36):
and equip these ships did a tremendous job. They were
about thirty two thousand and five hundred employees in this workforce,
and during the World War II period they built fifty
new ships and repaired three hundred and sixty three, which
was a pretty tremendous aid to the American war effort.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
And a special thanks to Monte Montgomery for the production
on that piece, and a special thanks to Anne Claire
who's a teacher, an organist, and a choir director, but
he's also a World War two history buff and we
love having our World War II and history contributors be
from all walks of life. You don't have to have
a PhD in history to know history or tell stories
about it. And my goodness, fifty new ships. That's a
(17:24):
crazy number of ships, folks. The story in a way
of the Arsenal Democracy, the story of Bremerton Naval Yard.
Here on our American story.
Host
Lee Habeeb
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