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They shipped it from the Gulf of Mexico, around Florida/ Cuba, and up the coast to the eastern US. (And there was a lot of Mississippi river <-> ocean traffic
by dmoy 2y ago
They shipped it from the Gulf of Mexico, around Florida/ Cuba, and up the coast to the eastern US. (And there was a lot of Mississippi river <-> ocean traffic too)
And some of them got torpedoed by German submarines around there. (E.g. off the coast of Louisiana)
No rounding South America involved.
> Why not trains
Way cheaper to ship by boat up the coast.
- dmoy 2y ago> Way cheaper to ship by boat up the coast. Corollary: one reason we see a mismatch here in modern days is the long term effect of the Jones Act. WWII was only a couple decades after Jones Act, and there was still a huge domestically flagged merchant marine. Today, not so much. It's illegal for a non-US flagged ship to go between two US ports, so we see more done by train.