> The largest, the 50,000-ton forging presses, were behemoths: each was the size of a ten-story building, and could exert enough force to lift an entire battleship. The 35,000-ton forging presses weren’t much smaller.
and then
> Following Germany’s surrender, the U.S. and the Soviet Union divided up its large press capabilities as well as its rocket scientists. The U.S. dismantled four German presses and had them shipped back to the states
I wonder what the logistics for moving something like that across the ocean was. I know Soviets dismantled a bunch of factories during the war and moved them far behind the front lines...wonder what that was like.