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HK-1 Flying Boat |
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Liberty Ship |
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De Havilland Mosquito Bomber |
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PT Boat |
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| World War II - Roddis supplied wood products required by US & Allies including plywood needed for the Mosquito Bomber, Spruce Goose and Liberty Ships. |
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| During World War II the Marshfield plant manufactured marine plywood for PT boats and interior plywood, panels, doors, and bulkheads for the construction of hundreds of Liberty Ships made by the US Maritime Commission. The plant made aircraft plywood and cut and shipped special birch veneer to Britain for use in construction of the famed De Havilland Mosquito Bomber. The veneer for the bomber was so thin that it could not be dried by mechanical means, but rather had to be hung by wires to air dry. At least 90% of the production of the Marshfield plant during WWII was devoted to the war effort. Among later contracts awarded to the Marshfield plant was the manufacture of the aircraft plywood used to construct Howard Hughes’ HK-1 Flying Boat also known as the Spruce Goose. |
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