Heavy Metal : : the Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers who Build America's Supercarriers
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Presents the extraordinary story of the Newport News Shipbuilding yard in Virginia and its thirty thousand employees and shipyard workers who battle layoffs, the elements, impossible deadlines, extraordinary pressure, workplace dangers, and a pandemic to build the U.S. Navy's newest and most powerful aircraft carrier.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
Year Published: 2022
Description: x, 306 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062996251
0062996258
SUBJECTS
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company -- History.
Shipbuilding -- Newport News -- History.
Shipbuilding industry -- Newport News -- History.
Aircraft carriers -- United States -- Design and construction.
Newport News (Va.) -- History, Naval.