So
during the 3-1/2 years of the USA involvement in 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, the U.S. produced
151 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's worth noting, that during the same amount of time, the Obama administration couldn't build a functioning web site.
Mark S Helm
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