Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kansas. October 1942. Wikipedia
Interesting ........................
During the 3-1/2 years of World War 2 that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, America produced:
22 aircraft carriers
8 battleships
48 cruisers
349 destroyers
420 destroyer escorts
203 submarines
34 million tons of merchant ships
100,000 fighter aircraft
98,000 bombers
24,000 transport aircraft
58,000 training aircraft
93,000 tanks
257,000 artillery pieces
105,000 mortars
3,000,000 machine guns AND
2,500,000 military trucks
We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy , won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany .
It should be noted that during a similar amount of time the current Federal bureaucracy couldn't build a functioning web site.
WNU Editor: Hat Tip to Theo Spark
1 comment:
This post is snarkinessat its worst! Dislike Obama if you will. Belittle him if you will. But his team, as you call it, is ending a war in Iraq, windingdown one in Afghanistan. And we have NSA doing what was never before done, like it or not. You do a disservice to those who serve in our military by demeaning what our Defense dept has acomplished.
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