Waking the Sleeping Giant - America Prepares for War

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Waking the Sleeping Giant - America Prepares for War - WW2 Special

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As the United States enter World War Two, a huge industrial giant awakens from hibernation. This episode covers Industrial Mobilization plans, their execution, and their potential.
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@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

We're back to our regular tri-weekly upload schedule after a much needed holiday break. We have been filming a bunch of new specials and bios, so we have that to look forward to. Do you like our videos and do you want to contribute our own little mobilization? Join the TimeGhost Army on patreon.com/timeghosthistory or timeghost.tv. Cheers, Please read our Community Guidelines before commenting: community.timeghost.tv/t/rules-of-conduct/4518

@TreeBarkSide 3 жыл бұрын

Hi! Would it be possible to see some WWII mech soon? Thanks!

@QuizmasterLaw 3 жыл бұрын

How do you raise the cash needed to prosecute a global war? If you're Hjalmo Schacht you borrow a lot of money which is only due to be repaid After the war you're planning. If you're the USA: you float bonds. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i8WiZKpprbqvgmQ.html LOTS of bonds.

@alexandertippett4815 3 жыл бұрын

Are there any good books on the American mobilization?

@indianajones4321 3 жыл бұрын

The effort in these specials is truly amazing, previously you did a special on logistics in the eastern front, could you do a similar episode on logistics in the Pacific Campaign?

@josedavidgarcesceballos7 3 жыл бұрын

Hi guts, now that I remember, what happened to the homefront episodes? Its has been a while...

@rick7424 3 жыл бұрын

Who was the best general of WWII? General Motors.

@JMgamer909 3 жыл бұрын

That’s class😂

@m1994a3jagnew 3 жыл бұрын

The winter*

@christosvoskresye 3 жыл бұрын

@@m1994a3jagnew aka General Frost

@m1994a3jagnew 3 жыл бұрын

@@christosvoskresye Commisar Cold

@JGlennFL 3 жыл бұрын

And our two best allies? Atlantic and Pacific.

@ixlzz 3 жыл бұрын

My father, who was too young to enlist at the start of the war, remembers the 'government men' arriving at the manufacturing company owned by my grandfather. They looked everything over, assessed capability, placed orders on the spot for wartime components, and confiscated some pieces of machinery that were not being used at present, intending to ship them to factories and shops that could use them for their own government orders. The gov boys did also ask what machine tools granddad could use to better help in his own production of parts, and those items were delivered to him within just weeks and left for the duration of the war, sourced from the factories of others. None of Grandfather's confiscated machines were returned to him after the war, but he stated he had been well compensated for his losses. My dad ended up lying about his age a couple years later, enlisted, and fought on Saipan in the Pacific Theater. He was still just a kid.

@SamAronow 3 жыл бұрын

That part about worker input is interesting, because it's something that American academics introduced to Japan after the war. In fact, Japan's postwar economic miracle is in large part a product of American economic studies during the war. And of course, the American management put a firm end to that kind of cooperation when the war ended, and American heavy industry began to fall behind.

@cenccenc946 3 жыл бұрын

My father lied about his age too. Joined the marines at 15 and was sent to the Philippines. He said people were not looking too close at his documents in those days. After the war he recieved a draft notice for korea, even though he was exempt as a vet. The draft board did not expect anyone so young to be a vet. He said since he was there anyway, he asked if he could volunteer to join the marines again. so, off he went.

@johnyarbrough502 3 жыл бұрын

@@SamAronow W. E. Demings developed Total Quality Management concepts working for occupation forces in Japan. Japanese Scientific Association awards Demings Prize for achievement in efficiency and productivity.

@thurin84 3 жыл бұрын

there was a war to win afterall.

@Conn30Mtenor 3 жыл бұрын

Cool story.

@Protorit 3 жыл бұрын

After pearl happens, I always imagined that FDR momentarily forgets that he can't walk and walks across the room to a glass box marked "break incase of emergency" and spartan kicks it. Inside the box is "infinite budget", "unemployment solved" and "factories goes Brrrrrrr".

@tyvernoverlord5363 3 жыл бұрын

You take the interwebz brownie points sir! I just about shook the apartment when I read that

@NormAppleton 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it was already in motion.

@IronTulikettu 3 жыл бұрын

Japan cripples U.S. Pacific fleet. Japan: "Why do I still hear boss music?"

@s2eforme 3 жыл бұрын

US navy: "Crippled navy is a state of mind"

@KojanRiktan 3 жыл бұрын

The US has two health bars.

@piltdownman2151 3 жыл бұрын

@@KojanRiktan Yes, but they just found a power-up

@SergeantAradir 3 жыл бұрын

US has bought all the microtransactions. #pay2win4thewin

@Duke_of_Lorraine 3 жыл бұрын

Official telegram from FDR to Tojo after Pearl Harbor : "oh noooo my daily production of battleships. BTW omae wa mou shindeiru"

@craigwheller 3 жыл бұрын

There's also a story that Yamamoto, while traveling around the US in the 20s/30s got lost in his car on some back road and came across two workers with a machine fixing potholes. He realizes what a mistake it would be to go to war with the US because he knows that in Japan, the same scene would have been 40 peasants with wooden shovels.

@exeggcutertimur6091 3 жыл бұрын

It helps a lot to have a 50 year head start on the industrial revolution. Road repair tools, much less car factories, take some time to build.

@piotrd.4850 Жыл бұрын

@@exeggcutertimur6091 and pressure of workforce deficit. USA had everything, except workforce (compared to demand), Europe and Japan had people.....

@Spiz103 3 жыл бұрын

To quote a certain Auto Executive hired by the Roosevelt adminstration to help coordinate all this, William S Knudsen, "We won because we smothered the enemy in an avalanche of production, the like of which he had never seen, nor dreamed possible."

@thurin84 3 жыл бұрын

and to think, we can do it again.

@External2737 3 жыл бұрын

Knudsen and his team won the war. The B-29 would never have made it into service without his rework plan (stop mucking up production by producing know defective and set up factories in Kansas City to fix prior B-29s. When the full fix, say the windows popping out, was complete switch, then wiring and instrumentation.

@Jay-ho9io 3 жыл бұрын

@@thurin84 unlikely.

@thurin84 3 жыл бұрын

@@Jay-ho9io hahahahahaha uh huhh. sure lol.

@hertzwave8001 3 жыл бұрын

@@thurin84 yea we def couldnt do this to the same extent with modern arleigh burkes and ticonderogas

@L.J.Kommer 3 жыл бұрын

"Haha. I'm in danger." -Admiral Yamamoto, 1941, probably

@susanmaggiora4800 3 жыл бұрын

L.J. Kommer 🤣

@naja2270 3 жыл бұрын

I wish this was true lol

@DOSFS 3 жыл бұрын

P-38 : Y E S, U R

@jaxwagen4238 3 жыл бұрын

Forked-tails inbound

@TheNinjaDC 3 жыл бұрын

I mean, he knew it. Yamamoto was one of the biggest opponents to starting a war with America. But, like with general Lee and his home of Virginia, he just tried to make the best out if the sh#@ sandwich his superiors handed him that he never wanted.

@chasehicks7465 2 жыл бұрын

The only 139 automobiles made after war was declared truly puts the war economy in focus. Amazing video sir.

@WorldWarTwo 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@ZER0ZER0SE7EN Жыл бұрын

Mass production has to be done at full speed or it's inefficient. Those 139 automobiles most likely went to Federal and military officials.

@garysimpson3900 3 жыл бұрын

Staggering the industrial might that was America in the 20th century. My father served in the British Pacific Fleet in 1945. He always talked about the size of the US navy fleets he saw: not only warships but "fleet trains" of supply ships.

@1969Risky 3 жыл бұрын

My grandfather was on the HMS Implacable with the BPF & he said the same thing.

@TheSuperhoden 3 жыл бұрын

My grandfather was the dumbass that was standing next to a naval gun when it fired

@stevekaczynski3793 3 жыл бұрын

SPOILER At the time of the Bulge in late 1944, a German artilleryman experienced heavy US bombardment and reflected that "this is how a rich man makes war". His guns were rationed to using a small number of shells per day - I think it was six per gun but I am not sure.

@jpjpjp453 3 жыл бұрын

Look up USN Service Squadrons for a real eye opener. For sheer logistical support, it was beyond anyone's pre-war imagination. From wiki..."On 8 October 1944 Commodore Worrall R. Carter's flagship Prairie, the merchant ammunition ship Plymouth Victory and Cascade sailed for Ulithi. Markab initially remained at Eniwetok, leaving for Ulithi on 18 October 1944 and arriving on 22 October. " "Within a month of the occupation of Ulithi, a whole floating base was in operation. Six thousand ship fitters, artificers, welders, carpenters, and electricians arrived aboard repair ships, destroyer tenders, and floating dry docks. USS Ajax had an air-conditioned optical shop and a metal fabrication shop with a supply of base metals from which she could make any alloy to form any part needed. USS Abatan, which looked like a big tanker, distilled fresh water and baked bread and pies. The ice cream barge made 500 gallons a shift. The dry docks towed to Ulithi were large enough to lift dry a 45,000-ton battleship. Fleet oilers sortied to and from Ulithi to meet the task forces at sea, refueling the warships a short distance from their combat operational areas. The result was something never seen before: a vast floating service station enabling the entire Pacific fleet to operate indefinitely at unprecedented distances from its mainland bases. Service Squadron 10's conversion of the lagoon at Ulithi to a major naval resupply and staging area was one of the most remarkable feats of the war."

@1969Risky 3 жыл бұрын

@@jpjpjp453 It's a real eye opener regarding logistics.

@batTorah 2 жыл бұрын

My dad was a riveter, he joined the Navy in 1944 at age 17. He was a Seabee and helped build Guam AFB while the Japanese were still on the island. It was the first time in his life that he ate 3 meals a day.

@WorldWarTwo 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing that with us!

@jonathanbrown7250 3 жыл бұрын

Hitler "Hey, let's get America swinging at us too, in exchange for Japan giving us zero help with Russia." Best - Trade - Ever.

@marrvynswillames4975 3 жыл бұрын

Japan had no reason to attack russia, they needed recources, not frozen wastedland, specially after germany giving no help for japan in 1938

@_ArsNova 3 жыл бұрын

90% of the comments are this exact same format of stupid "make fake meme historical quote from perspective of a nation or general about 'uh oh Axis in trouble'" is incredibly stale and unfunny.

@ThebearCornal 3 жыл бұрын

@@_ArsNova As of time of typing, 45 folks find it funny, or at least liked it enough to hit that button while 4 find it unfunny. Curious.

@jonathanbrown7250 3 жыл бұрын

@@_ArsNova Here's a thought. If the comments are so stupid and beneath you, there's this thing you can do called ""Not reading them."

@alphamikeomega5728 3 жыл бұрын

Probably to allow unrestricted submarine warfare, right?

@Otter-Destruction 3 жыл бұрын

As Sun Tzu says "Don't want none, don't start none"

@jonathanbrown7250 3 жыл бұрын

Ahh, that Sun Tzu hoomespun wistom

@SamAronow 3 жыл бұрын

My grandfather worked as an electrician in wartime industry while his younger brother fought in Europe. His first job was taking care of horses for the milkmen in Chicago, but his work during the war eventually qualified him for his last job before retirement: installing the computers on the Space Shuttle.

@thegeneralist7527 3 жыл бұрын

That is a cool story. Going from shoveling horse manure to working on the space shuttle. That is the power of freedom and democracy.

@exeggcutertimur6091 3 жыл бұрын

That's also a great summary of the industrial revolution right there. From horse races to the space race.

@luciusvorenus9445 2 жыл бұрын

That is an awesome career arc! My Grandparents were born before manned flight and lived through the space race, passing away at the dawn of the Space Shuttle.

@Erik-ko6lh 3 жыл бұрын

My Grandfather was 25 at the time of Pearl Harbor. He owned a small garage/gas station and worked part time as a diesel mechanic for International Harvester. IH designated him as critical labor and he spent the war at the end of a truck assembly line. His job was to make sure the newly assembled trucks actually ran.

@amadeusamwater 3 жыл бұрын

He had the most important job in the place...

@TheSuperhoden 3 жыл бұрын

Running trucks, usain bolt got nothing on them

@pauleohl 3 жыл бұрын

@@oddballsok Considering the alternatives, it was paradise.

@netherwolf3012 3 жыл бұрын

May have sucked but it was still important none the less.

@tonyk2860 3 жыл бұрын

@ODDBALL FUK what's your problem dick!

@mshotz1 3 жыл бұрын

IN 1979, I was in the US Army, Stationed in Germany. We would be issued 050" cal. Ammo for range fire that was made in 1944.

@markcantemail8018 3 жыл бұрын

mshotz1 This past week I was going thru an odd lot of Ammo that i purchased for $5 in 2008 . 30-06 Tracer , incendiary , 3 types of Blanks and others from somebody's collection . I also cleaned up some weird ones with a Head stamp with an 8 . Further cleaning revealed a faint 1 next to the 8 . The way the primer was installed staked and sealed was Strange . Strange because i had never owned 1918 made ammo before . If things go Mad max they might be usable ? I enjoyed your 1979 memory .

@thurin84 3 жыл бұрын

they were still award ww2 produced purple hearts DURING DESERT STORM!!!!

@byronliu680 3 жыл бұрын

@@thurin84 to be fair many of those were produced because the US expected to invade the japanese mainland

@thurin84 3 жыл бұрын

@@byronliu680 yes

@shockwave6213 3 жыл бұрын

@@markcantemail8018 It would probably still fire, but it would likely be a hang fire. Best to keep it as a curiosity though.

@christopherroa9781 3 жыл бұрын

Simple thing but I LOVE moments where Indy talks to the other people on set and they respond off screen. It feels so natural and your guys chemistry reminds me of mythbusters esque camaraderie

@exeggcutertimur6091 3 жыл бұрын

They also go to great lengths to dispel any myths they come across, like "going around Maginot".

@thomaslanguell7257 3 жыл бұрын

Roosevelt: "What do you need?" Stimson: "Everything. A lot of it!"

@ernestojordanpena2827 3 жыл бұрын

Roosevelt: "you will get double that"

@nickdanger3802 3 жыл бұрын

As I understand it Stalin wanted almost everything the USA was able to produce and a second front in France and he wanted both yesterday.

@exeggcutertimur6091 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe had he not spent the previous decade killing millions of his own people he'd have more soldiers and resources, eh?

@bgdancer100 2 ай бұрын

Roosevelt: "Ask and ye shall receive."

@Femerenden 3 жыл бұрын

I hope we hear about Liberty ships at some point as well. Those ships and the people who crewed them were what really changed the war.

@blueboats7530 3 жыл бұрын

And building massive new shipyards in a just few months to produce those Liberty ships

@jonathanbrown7250 3 жыл бұрын

Good idea. I know you're in Europe, but might a visit be in order? There are two functioning liberty ships left. One is the Jeremiah O'brien in SF. The other is John W. Brown in Baltimore. Baltimore harbor's a fun time. There are a number of historical ships and stuff to see around the harbor.

@umjackd 3 жыл бұрын

If you hop on Nebula, Real Engineering has a great series on the logistics of D-Day, including Liberty ships, Mulberry Harbours, everything. Fascinating stuff.

@schoolssection 3 жыл бұрын

No - everyone played a part.

@stevejdickey 2 жыл бұрын

And the corn field ship yards!

@TheEvertw 3 жыл бұрын

I never realized how enormous the industrial capacity of the USA was compared to the world at that time. Thanks!

@BrettCagwin49ers 3 жыл бұрын

Winston Churchill quoting Lloyd-George IIRC: "The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once you light a fire under it there is no limit to the power it can generate."

@gordybing1727 3 жыл бұрын

Hi All, In the 1880's or so, in northern Minnesota they had mined for iron, leaving giant spoil piles. During WW2, with newer technologies, they mined the spoil piles as it was faster then mining new. Thanks, take care.

@HaloFTW55 3 жыл бұрын

You too, and thanks for the cool trivia.

@NormAppleton 3 жыл бұрын

The Tennessee River Authority. It spent billions of early 40's money to centrifuge uranium. But, it also built the electrical infrastructure of the south. FDR did that. Mitch McConnell never will.

@bangscutter 3 жыл бұрын

US: "We produce ten times more cars than the rest of the world combined." Japan: "Let's poke this giant and see what happens." US: *Converts factories into making guns, artillery, tanks, and aircraft.* Axis: "Oh shit..."

@Psychonaut316 3 жыл бұрын

Great Britain: Oh no! Anyways...

@TheSuperhoden 3 жыл бұрын

Lols

@_ArsNova 3 жыл бұрын

90% of the comments are this exact same format of stupid "make fake meme historical quote from perspective of a nation or general about 'uh oh Axis in trouble'" is incredibly stale and unfunny.

@steve_jackson9933 3 жыл бұрын

I forget how many tanks we had by the end of the war, but we clearly outnumbered everything Germany had. Russia was another industrial beast as well. Once those two industrial giants woke from their slumber, it was game over.

@spikespa5208 3 жыл бұрын

@@_ArsNova Yeah yeah. We saw that comment in the other 2 threads. Get some new material.

@otakunthevegan4206 3 жыл бұрын

"The average Ford car had fifteen thousand parts The B-24 Liberator had 1 Million five hundred and fifty thousand parts. 1 came off the line at Willow Run every 63 minutes"- From Ken Burns: The War

@floydlooney6837 3 жыл бұрын

4.8 million cars produced during a Depression year. Even during the Depression the US economy was stronger than we think.

@haeuptlingaberja4927 3 жыл бұрын

My favorite anecdote about the role of America's industrial might is the story of a German tank commander who is absolutely dumbfounded by the discovery of a chocolate birthday cake sent from home and found, still fresh, in a Sherman tank. "We cannot possibly win against this," he is reported to have said.

@Ok.ok. Жыл бұрын

If I recall it wasn’t just some rank commander but the desert fox Rommel himself who said that.

@torchris1 3 жыл бұрын

When I was in university I did a lot of research on the production of four engined bombers in the US and the story and the numbers are just staggering. I recall the US aircraft manufacturing industry went from 36,000 employees in 1938 to 2.5 million by 1943! You should definitely do a story on the Ford Willow Run B-24 bomber plant. It was a real microcosm of the things that went both right and wrong with this titanic mobilization.

@GeneralSmitty91 3 жыл бұрын

Henry Ford II: This isn't the first time the Ford Motor Company has gone to war Mr. Shelby

@tyvernoverlord5363 3 жыл бұрын

The Ford produced equipment did always have a reputation for excellence

@wietse1113 3 жыл бұрын

That's absolutely insane. Producing more than Germany, Japan and Italy combined. How could you ever hope to win in that war? Those numbers (combined with the obvious manpower advantages of the allies) make it absolutely insane that they weren't trying to get peace in 1942...

@jackhoff3910 3 жыл бұрын

I doubt the Axis powers knew the extent of wartime production taking place in the USA.

@user-vh3fr3lb8w Жыл бұрын

@@jackhoff3910mad men cant see that. Hitler and Mussolini never saw it coming

@SirSaladhead 3 жыл бұрын

Small nitpick: At 9:10, those are just M4 Shermans. "Grant" was the british nickname for the M3 Medium Tank (also known as Lee)

@Kiev_The_Great 3 жыл бұрын

They were subtly different. The Grant had a different turret and removed the radio (and the dedicated operator) from inside the hull and instead gave it to the commander in the turret.

@ballagh 3 жыл бұрын

In the world of small nitpicks, the Grant has a different turret to the Lee, with an added bustle rack for a radio, and one less crewman.

@ballagh 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kiev_The_Great oops, you beat me to it

@ninus17 3 жыл бұрын

@@Kiev_The_Great yes. but the lee/grant was designated m3. indy calls them m4 grant shermans. no such tank ever had that name. it was just M4 sherman or to the brits general sherman

@Kiev_The_Great 3 жыл бұрын

@@ninus17 100% the Grant was M3 and not M4. I was just pointing out that the Grant and Lee were distinct variants rather than 'just' a nickname when in British service.

@Anglomachian 3 жыл бұрын

Thank goodness someone else recognizes the awesome of Tora Tora Tora!

@AndyM_323YYY 3 жыл бұрын

The story of Pearl Harbor without the supposed need for a love story injected into it. Who'd have guessed it could be done?

@Anglomachian 3 жыл бұрын

@@AndyM_323YYY Apparently not Micheal Bay.

@troy9477 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is s great movie. Some years ago, i was fortunate to find a DVD with THX sound at Costco, so i snatched it up. Just watched it again a few days ago, ironically. Great film, and factually accurate. We did not know it at the time. Of course, but the first shots of our war against Japan were fire by the USS Ward.

@Conn30Mtenor 3 жыл бұрын

Apart from the 1960's hairstyles and fashions, yeah. It's good.

@Anglomachian 3 жыл бұрын

@@Conn30Mtenor They were going through a phase.

@JustSomeCanuck 3 жыл бұрын

Talking about the industrial workers in the USA would make for a great series of On The Homefront episodes. Just saying.

@arclight7401 3 жыл бұрын

8:32 My jaw genuinely dropped when he said 139

@ThePRCommander 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@blueboats7530 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you won't find the rare 1943 Oldmobile in a classic car show . . . because . . .

@mommachupacabra 3 жыл бұрын

Stuart Kaminsky's Toby Peters mystery series takes place in the pre-war/wartime/post-war era of Los Angeles, and his characters spend a fair bit of time trying to get working vehicles, or maintain cars that are falling apart with bald tires.

@Altrantis 3 жыл бұрын

I was expecting him to follow up with "thousand"

@principalityofbelka6310 3 жыл бұрын

The industrial capacity of the United States is mindblowing. The Liberty Class cargo ships, Fletcher Class destroyer, and the M4 Sherman are examples of American industrial superiority in the 2nd World War.

@willbxtn 3 жыл бұрын

@@joshuamarriott7034 Not the best tank one on one, but it wasn't one on one: more Shermans were built in 1942-45 than the total of all German tanks, including the captured Czechoslovak Panzer 38(t), produced both during the war and before the war started.

@generalfred9426 3 жыл бұрын

"didn’t fair well against the german panthers or tigers" Ironically enough the Sherman was reported to be 3.6 times more effective than the Panther.

@roymartin500 3 жыл бұрын

Yamamoto: Tojo made me do it! Tojo: The Emperor made me do it! Emperor: They told me I was a living God! They: So....we exaggerated a bit.

@thurin84 3 жыл бұрын

(stares in reproachful samurai)-[belly slitting intensifies]

@taufiqutomo 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine 20, 30, 40, 50 years from now, this series will be a classic.

@Duke_of_Lorraine 3 жыл бұрын

So you're saying that you're NOT watching a Pearl Harbor movie for the love triangle ?

@minderbart1 3 жыл бұрын

best part of the movie

@unbindingfloyd 3 жыл бұрын

lol

@principalityofbelka6310 3 жыл бұрын

Tora Tora Tora solely focuses on the political events, planning of the attack, and the events of the attack. I heard that one of the consultant of the movie is Minoru Genda himself.

@Erik-ko6lh 3 жыл бұрын

I recommend Monty Pythons reenactment over the love triangle movie.

@davidblair9877 3 жыл бұрын

Why let a little history ruin a good love triangle?

@TheGM-20XX 3 жыл бұрын

"Lol America will never be able to use their car Factories to make weapons" - Mussolini, paraphrased.

@thurin84 3 жыл бұрын

(colorized)

@maximilianolimamoreira5002 3 жыл бұрын

"what about we use them anyway?"

@Conn30Mtenor 3 жыл бұрын

funny, because a Detroit industrial architect designed all of Russia's tractor factories which then churned out tanks. If he actually said this, then that would make that one of the most stupid comments ever uttered by an Axis leader.

@t5ruxlee210 3 жыл бұрын

The pre WW2 crash rearmament program started out as a horrible mess. Companies like GMC were awarded "cost plus contacts" so they went on a "plan ahead" hiring spree for the skilled trades to be required in their yet unbuilt new factories. Meanwhile the contractors tasked with constructing these new plants could not find the skilled people they needed because they were all sitting around drawing pay and doing nothing at said companies. It all blew wide open when an obscure politician of dubious reputation decided to spend his summer away from Washington travelling the country and getting close up and personal with the real facts. His later revelations that year made his name a topic of household conversations. He was Harry Truman. His ongoing efforts later saw him chosen as FDR's running mate for VP and the rest is history.

@Bigwakka 3 жыл бұрын

Nice, I'm listening to this while making my deliveries to a place which built the B-29's.

@jasondouglas6755 3 жыл бұрын

I hope your not watching this while you drive their.

@harrydarwin1874 3 жыл бұрын

Well good luck mr Yamamoto, he’s gonna need it

@Giovanni-mj9uj 3 жыл бұрын

Average hoi4 player

@_boils_8492 3 жыл бұрын

That turtleneck 🥵🥵🍑🍆

@principalityofbelka6310 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know. I fear a horrible fate awaits him somewhere in the Solomon islands.

@yourstruly4817 3 жыл бұрын

Pearl Harbor didn't work out, so he started selling us video games

@Duke_of_Lorraine 3 жыл бұрын

He knew the ods before even attacking Pearl Harbor. Probably cursing Tojo the entire time.

@coremanEXE 3 жыл бұрын

man the ambient music is so comforting and genuinely doesn't come off as repetitive, even though I'm only just realizing it's the same beat every time. Great series, all!

@blueboats7530 3 жыл бұрын

Isoroku, allow us to introduce you to the P-38 . . . And ... another 36 P-38s And 10,000 more P-38s

@thurin84 3 жыл бұрын

and those are just the backup aircraft!

@jeffgalus8454 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah Yamamoto may not have said it but it still a darn good line

@thurin84 3 жыл бұрын

id imagine something like if crossed his mind when the 20mm, and .50 cals stared impacting his betty.

@bobtaylor170 3 жыл бұрын

My future mother had a "Rosie" job, two, actually. She worked with spun glass to make fiberglass insulation for our navy; before that, she'd worked on the factory's other side, where they manufactured jockstraps for the military. If there had been a mistake, and the two sides of the factory had gotten mixed up, there might not have been a baby boom.

@danielkokal8819 2 жыл бұрын

fiberglass jockstraps. that would have lost the war for us, what with Patton always scratching himself.

@goodsous 3 жыл бұрын

The tanks at 9:06 are M3 Grant or M3 Lee tanks, officially designated as "Medium Tank, M3". The tanks at 9:09 are M4 Sherman tanks, officially "Medium Tank M4".

@amerigo88 3 жыл бұрын

Nonsense. I just bought a M4 Grant-Sherman model on eBay for $500. Seller said it was “incredibly rare.” I will let it go for $1500. I know what I’ve got. No low balls.

@shawnr771 3 жыл бұрын

I went to the George H.W. Bush Museum of the Pacific War a few years ago. One information panel listed all the stuff built by American factories and shipyards in WW2. Artillery Pieces (larger than 37mm) 257,000 Tanks and Self propeled guns 88,000 Machine guns 2.6 million Ammunition 41 Billion rounds. Military Trucks 2.3 million Aircraft Fighter 99,950. Bombers 97,830 Transport 23,929 Aircraft Carriers 18 Essex Class(CV) 7 Independence Class(CVL). Escort Carriers(CVE) 119 Battleships 8 Cruisers 48 Destroyers 349 Submarines 422 Amphibious Craft (all types) 80,000 Merchant tonnage 33,993,230 In addition in just a few short years the US produced all the stuff that goes with a military. From kitchens, office furniture, uniforms and basic equipment, web gear, ropes, food. The US not only supplied gear for it's own military but that of numerous other nations.

@tyvernoverlord5363 3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention that the U.S. Pacific Fleet would grow to be bigger than all the navies of the major fighting powers combined!

@JD-kl8hz 3 жыл бұрын

@@tyvernoverlord5363 by 1944-45 the US Navy was around 75% of the world's naval tonnage. Pretty crazy!

@tyvernoverlord5363 3 жыл бұрын

@@JD-kl8hz If we had gone to war with the USSR just right after WWII and before the spies gave the soviets the blueprints for the bomb, the navy could’ve crushed the Red Navy on a whole new level of roflstomp

@robertlight5227 3 жыл бұрын

"The destiny of World War Two was decided at Pearl Harbor." - Churchill.

@johnmichaelson9173 5 ай бұрын

Really it was when Hitler declared war on the US forcing American entry into WWII.

@zolafuckass8606 3 жыл бұрын

"No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory." -FDR Let's see if he'll be right.

@delraybrewer 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like we might do alright. I wanna see how it plays out.

@harrydarwin1874 3 жыл бұрын

I dunno, could go either way

@zolafuckass8606 3 жыл бұрын

@@harrydarwin1874 Oswald Mosely??? What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be organizing rallies in Dorchester?

@stc3145 3 жыл бұрын

«If the Japanese invaded now they would penetrate as far as Chicago before we could stop them» Some guy in a Pearl Harbor Movie

@zolafuckass8606 3 жыл бұрын

@@stc3145 "Do not tell me it can't be done."

@danmarce 3 жыл бұрын

That wishlist. Other countries WISH to be able to WISH that.

@keiranallcott1515 3 жыл бұрын

In regards to the famous quote in toro toro toro , there’s another famous quote by another Japanese admiral that pretty much summed up pearl harbour just as well , the book , countdown to pearl harbour. “We have won a great victory and we have lost the war “

@minderbart1 3 жыл бұрын

american wartime production was absolutely insane.

@alvinhadiyanto7326 2 жыл бұрын

Still can't beat USSR in tank production

@markoliver314 2 жыл бұрын

@@alvinhadiyanto7326 yea but they weren’t just making tanks. They were building everything.

@Anthony-jo7up 2 жыл бұрын

@@alvinhadiyanto7326 The USA significantly outproduced the USSR in tank production every single year of the war except for 1945, where they produced only 12k to the USSR's 20k as the USA ceased tank production earlier. Furthermore, by the end of the war, 80% of the Red Army's vehicles were made in America. Additionally, the USA had produced more planes during the war than the rest of the Allies combined, had produced multiple times more ships than the entire world combined, and had a GDP larger than the entire world combined. Furthermore, the American material produced was of exceptionally high quality, unlike the infamously shoddily-manufactured material of the USSR.

@RUSIA_MISKIN_GA_GUNA 9 ай бұрын

@@alvinhadiyanto7326vatnik indon

@phantomkelvink4225 Ай бұрын

@@Anthony-jo7upI know I am late but…Good job! You take it out of my mouth!

@Conn30Mtenor 3 жыл бұрын

I recommend the Kursk video with Jonathan Parshall. He does an amazing job of explaining how tanks production is compared between the warring powers.

@torgeirbrandsnes1916 2 жыл бұрын

Great vlog as always! On the 8th dec. 1941 the president of Boeing calls one of his plant managers and tell him «Just start ordering what ever you need to make all the aircraft we produce!»

@WorldWarTwo 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Torgeir!

@Daniiren 3 жыл бұрын

Between 1942 and 1945 the Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded an average of 2 million industrial casualties per year. The total combat casualties over this period was less than 1 million. OSU has a bunch of material on this that is definitely worth looking at.

@CArchivist 3 жыл бұрын

As a reminder, GM, Ford, and Chrysler were not the only American automobile manufacturers in business in 1941. Packard, Hudson, Studebaker, Crosley, Nash, REO, Stout, and a little firm called Willys-Overland, which gave the world The Jeep, were producing for the war too. Some of them probably stayed in business for a few years longer than they would have normally due to war time profits.

@IrishTechnicalThinker 3 жыл бұрын

Germany: Our Production has increased. Italy: Our Production has increased. Japan: Our Production has increased. American: YES!!!

@penismightier9278 3 жыл бұрын

Americans: Wait... that's the best you can do? Dammit.

@CivilWarWeekByWeek 3 жыл бұрын

You know after all this time you would think Uncle Sam would get an alarm clock.

@interestingengineering291 3 жыл бұрын

Great one there 😉

@jasondouglas6755 3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@thurin84 3 жыл бұрын

i know, right? i guess we needz our beauty slepp.

@bgdancer100 2 ай бұрын

I recall reading somewhere that there is no such thing as a 1942 model American car. And that this is why.

@roadtrip2943 3 жыл бұрын

My mom worked for a oneman shop in the bronx making shaving kits for the service lads. She did a productive shift days and half shift on the books evenings , learnt some accounting moves. Pop was at sea and my older brother a tyke. With total beef shortages our chef uncle sent some cuts our way .you lived with family to get by during the war years shortages

@gianniverschueren870 3 жыл бұрын

Clean tie with some interesting patterning, but I'm not sure it works with this choice of tie and waistcoat. Still, a solid 3/5

@kevindoyle1884 3 жыл бұрын

Some videos are more shocking than others but those numbers alone were staggering, absolutely love these type of videos thanks

@briankorbelik2873 Жыл бұрын

My parents met at a north American sub-assembly plant in Pasadena CA. They made parts for the B-25 bombers and the P-51 Mustang fighters.

@WorldWarTwo Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, Brian!

@danielnavarro537 3 жыл бұрын

American Bronze British Brains Russian Blood Won the war. When Stalin talked about American industry, he realize they're output in guns, ammunition, ships, planes, bombs, tanks, artillery, and many resources. America is truly a might in industry and resources.

@eodyn7 3 жыл бұрын

It's American Brawn not Bronze. lol

@BoliceOccifer 4 ай бұрын

bro is cooking up that 570bc military @@eodyn7

@AbrahamLincoln4 3 жыл бұрын

surprising how a literal war immediately ended the Great Depression in the USA.

@jedawgs 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe my favorite episode so far! Would love to see a minor deep dive into the Philadelphia Navy Yards and its amazing production throughout the war. As a south Philly resident, the yards still have a major impact on today's life!

@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ 3 жыл бұрын

Awaken a sleeping giant indeed even if he didn’t say it. America never went to sleep again based on events since then.

@thurin84 3 жыл бұрын

no, sadly, we went on an 80 crack binge.

@waynedaub1889 3 жыл бұрын

I beg to differ America is more asleep than the phoney President

@ChadwickTheChad 3 жыл бұрын

@@waynedaub1889 the phoney president was voted out, so you can relax now.

@SLACKPLAN9 3 жыл бұрын

This is more in line with the Yamamoto quote in the recent "Midway" movie, "I said we couldn't win a L:ONG war."

@brockbayley5279 3 жыл бұрын

love the Australian flag in the background. Not often our contribution is acknowledged. I really hope you guys don't fall into the normal trap of covering the Pacific war though. Usually, it's framed as an America vs Japan war over American and Japanese islands when many of the campaigns fought in 1942-43 were fought to secure/isolate Australia. Please cover how Australia fed Allied armies in the Pacific and Fremantle Submarine Base

@TLTeo 3 жыл бұрын

Considering they are covering the war in China in detail, which is overlook at least just as much, I'm sure they will do Australia justice.

@psychic_beth 3 жыл бұрын

also if they'd cover the Battle of Brisbane that'd be nice

@JuanHerrera-wx7jc Жыл бұрын

True, there was a lot more going on down there than what is often discussed. Don’t worry, some of us Americans know!

@Jacob-df5hr 2 жыл бұрын

"How much of everything is needed to defeat everyone?" The USA ladies and gentlemen, where you can just sit down at the restaurant and place an order for victory

@philipreeves9311 3 жыл бұрын

I noted something interesting while reading Grant's autobiography that I think was used in the expansion of the U.S army in WW2. He believed that in a future war the army should use its trained professionals officers and soldiers as the core of units. He stated he believed that the southern armies benefited from officers and soldiers going back to their home states allowing the regiments they raised to be more effective. I recalled while reading Omar Bradley's auto biography that something like this was done. He did not site Grant's idea but I feel that Grant's idea was used to raise units quickly in the Untied states. What do you guys think?

@nobodyherepal3292 3 жыл бұрын

I disagree a little bit. Historically, armies of professional officers and soldiers are great at short, decisive wars, as there training and experience gives them a great advantage vs a lesser or poorly trained force. But, historically, Long wars are won because one side had more of its own people to grind into dust in an attritional war. And they don’t have to be very well trained or motivated. They just need to be numerically more then the other guys army and equipt with things that can be replaced just as easily. The Union army, Soviet Red army, the ww2 US army, and the WW1 the entente are good examples.

@3dcomrade 3 жыл бұрын

@@nobodyherepal3292 the Germans experienced this problem. Their real elite troops died in the early days of Barbarossa as theyre the spearhead taking most of the fighting. Making attacks even harder than before due to worse replacement on the frontlines

@Goldenspiderducck 3 жыл бұрын

7:40 Hey, quick kudos to whoever is adding the little whooshing noise whenever an icon or portrait appears. It’s a nice subtle production touch that helps give the video momentum and energy! Of course, now I can’t stop hearing it. Little whooshes, wherever I go....

@HZAres 3 жыл бұрын

what america can do when it is united and focused instead of divided and off chasing conspiracy theories.

@lucaswatson1913 3 жыл бұрын

I think as we'll see, and Indy hinted at at the end of the video, it might not have been politically United over this as you think Also yes the US United over the war but can you imagine the public reaction to the government forcing companies to take contracts these days? Imagine Elon musk being told Tesla factories produce missiles now no arguing

@umjackd 3 жыл бұрын

@@lucaswatson1913 It's a different environment now for sure, and conflicts today are very different from what they were then. If the US ever needed a complete war economy again, the world in general would have to be in a pretty terrible place. Though that reminds me of the whole debacle about ventilators early in the pandemic in the US and how complicated it was to requisition affordable ventilators because of crisis profiteering.

@user-zy8cy6hn6o 3 жыл бұрын

@@umjackd to be fair that potential economic chaos is one of the goals of organizations like the EU. It was originally created as the ESCC to create an economic barrier to war by intertwining European economies to cause detriment to any nation seeking to fully mobilize against another European nation.

@eodyn7 3 жыл бұрын

RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA

@MrNicoJac 3 жыл бұрын

@@umjackd The US still has the laws that allow the (federal) government to declare an emergency and *force* companies to switch production towards whatever the government dictates. Trump and Co just weren't willing to admit the situation was dire enough to go that far. And so they didn't use that law. But it certainly would have been possible to have plenty of PPE and ventilators produced, if there had been the political force, leadership, and coordination. Funnily enough though, these days I still read about PPE shortages, lack of beds/availability, and obviously overworked personnel, but no longer about insufficient ventilators.... So perhaps the production shortage wasn't that bad after all, or maybe they just aren't as useful for keeping people as was originally thought?

@BigMeechEJ25 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to see Hotzendorf still hanging around after all this time. Good video as always Indy and team.

@phillyprice4460 2 жыл бұрын

The great (and most historical city in the USA) Philadelphia contributed greatly with our factories. Philly was nicknamed the "Workshop of the World" at one point. Raw Materials, uniforms, bullets, ships and other products were all produced here. Locals used to call the one block in the Arsenal "Bullet Row'' or "The Block that beat Hitler" They thought they produced every small round fired in the European theater by American Soldiers, i dont know if that's true but it was always cool to hear.

@Drrolfski 3 жыл бұрын

On this topic, I can recommend the series War Factories that can be seen on the Discovery Channel. In 2 seasons it gives quite a good insight on why the Axis powers basically already lost the war before it really started. Factors like having different ideas about military planning, mass production and free-market economy played an equally key role besides just raw production capacity.

@Bochi42 3 жыл бұрын

God damn this series is very well done. Once society finally gets around to having awards for youtube channels and programs like we have for movies and the like I'm seeing a lot coming for these folks. It'll take a while for this medium to be recognized but the whole crew are going to get lifetime Achievement Awards. Their stuff is really that good.

@TreeBarkSide 3 жыл бұрын

Hi! Would it be possible for some WWII merchandise soon? Also, I would love to see a return of Snake and Angel!

@greenkoopa 3 жыл бұрын

You have to take the spoils from the defeated enemy

@principalityofbelka6310 3 жыл бұрын

I thought they're still stuck in a trench line somewhere in the Western Front.

@rick7424 3 жыл бұрын

You get a Sturmgewehr and you get a Stumgewehr... EVERYBODY GETS A STURMGEWEHR!

@WorldWarTwo 3 жыл бұрын

@@principalityofbelka6310 They are...

@thurin84 3 жыл бұрын

@@WorldWarTwo be sure to award them spanges for being retreads.

@L30n4rdo6 3 жыл бұрын

I did read a KZfaq comment about the industrial capability of the U.S. after joining the Allies in WWII and basically, it says this: "When did Japan lose the war? On December 7th, 1941"

@williamm374 3 жыл бұрын

I am happy to see the story of the fictional Yamamoto quote. Tora Tora Tora is by far the best Pearl Harbor movie.

@vksasdgaming9472 3 жыл бұрын

Sir Winston Churchill can breathe a sigh of relief as Allied victory has been confirmed. It will just take time. Those numbers are beyond awe-inspiring/horrifying.

@johnmichaelson9173 5 ай бұрын

It took Pearl Harbour & a declaration of war by Hitler for the US to finally grasp the fact that their freedom was in mortal danger. The lives that could've been saved if America had grasped that fact even as little as one year earlier.

@grandadmiralzaarin4962 3 жыл бұрын

Japan, "I'm going to do what's called a suicide move..."

@TheArbiter1721 3 жыл бұрын

I mean they were really good at that

@paulconrad6220 3 жыл бұрын

Like kidnapping the emperor and going head to head with Thrawn?

@grandadmiralzaarin4962 3 жыл бұрын

@@paulconrad6220 and I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for that meddling Thrawn and his Marek Steele!

@grandadmiralzaarin4962 3 жыл бұрын

@@paulconrad6220 and in fairness, Zaarin very nearly succeeded and almost killed Vader, Thrawn and Palpatine on multiple occasions during his campaign. That Thrawn was busy dealing with Zaarin and his remnant forces is why the Chiss was not at Endor and also why the Empire never got to mass produce the TIE Avenger and Defender, so posthumously, Zaarin contributed directly to the deaths of both Sith Lords due to the weaker TIEs being at Endor instead of the advanced models Zaarin developed.

@Darwinek 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheArbiter1721 They are still "good" in that according to suicide statistics.

@pedrolopez8057 3 жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: many workers in critical industries were drafted into their jobs. They couldn't quit with out permission and couldn't enlist. A friend of my dad's who described himself as "Too young for the first was and too old for the second" lamented the fact that he couldn't quit his job at an aircraft plant. My dad, who was in the second and a lifer one consoled him by telling him "That was a critical industry. We really needed those planes."

@brianjonker510 9 күн бұрын

A single fact illustrates just how OP the USA economy was during this short span of war years. Before the war the USA had the fourth of fifth largest navy in the world. At wars end it was not just the largest navy but was larger than all other navies put together.

@jasonpade4949 3 жыл бұрын

I can't wait to see the clips of Indy saying "IMP"

@avnrulz8587 3 жыл бұрын

9:14 Grant tank was M3, Sherman the M4, Stuart the M5.

@kglguy 3 жыл бұрын

Technically, the Stuart was also an M3 at first. U.S. military naming can be a bit confusing if you just go off of the "M" designations. For instance, just of the top of my head, the U.S. had in production, simultaneously, the following equipment with an M3 designation: Scout car, light tank, medium tank, anti-tank gun, and tank destroyer. That's just what immediately comes to mind.

@avnrulz8587 3 жыл бұрын

@@kglguy yes, but the Grant wasn't an M4.

@HBending1 3 жыл бұрын

When I was just 18 I had to choose between History and Economic studies. I choose economics, but I still actively learn, read and explore about history. THIS is the perfect synergy of both, and my favorite episode so far. Thank you so much for this. I hope in the future we will see war production of all major players of the WW2! :D

@caryblack5985 3 жыл бұрын

The USSR produced in 1941 15,735 planes, 6590 tanks in 1942 25,436 planes, 24,446 tanks, 49,100 artillery in 1943 34,900 planes, 24,089 tanks, 48,400 artillery in 1944 40,300 planes, 28,963 tanks, 56,100 artillery. and about half those numbers in 1945

@HBending1 3 жыл бұрын

@@caryblack5985 pretty impressive when you realise they literally picked up their factories and moved them east

@mt_baldwin 3 жыл бұрын

Is the other famous axis quote on american manufacturing from a movie too? I don't know the exact quote off hand but it comes from Rommel to Goering, Rommel saying american weapons are being used against him in Africa, Goering dismissing this with "America can only make razor blades" and Rommel snapping back "we could use such razor blades, Herr Reichsmarshal!"

@robertlight5227 3 жыл бұрын

"No one can ever defeat Detroit." - Attributed to Yamamoto.

@vksasdgaming9472 3 жыл бұрын

Except Detroit.

@piotrd.4850 Жыл бұрын

@@vksasdgaming9472 Yeah....

@QuizmasterLaw 3 жыл бұрын

Mao Zedong was asked what he thought about the influence of the French Revolution on history: His answer? "It is too soon to tell."

@alekzander2010 3 жыл бұрын

Mao Zedong's right hand man, Zhou Enlai, is actually the one who said it. However, it apparently was a translation error on his part too.

@Anthus. 3 жыл бұрын

Mao Ze-"dong" part of his name is "dong". Lol Idk why, but I think that is hilarious.

@QuizmasterLaw 3 жыл бұрын

@@Anthus. yep lots of dongs in Chinese. Wangs too!

@ThePRCommander 3 жыл бұрын

Go to the university of Yale in the US. Mao was a student there, before he went back to China and made his name. Guess what he studied...”thought reorientation”. Yamamoto also had a link to the very same university. Search and you shall find.

@HootOwl513 3 жыл бұрын

@@ThePRCommander Mao Zedong never left China. [For school].

@historybuff1812 3 жыл бұрын

Proud to be from Detroit because of our role in supplying the Arsenal of Democracy.

@30Mauser 3 жыл бұрын

My great-grandfather and namesake, LTC (later LTG) Ted Brooks was chief of the Statistics Branch of the US Army (under Marshall and Stimpson) from 1939 to 1941. As such, he created charts showing military production readiness that were presented up the chain to FDR. One of their inside jokes was that the colored charts were so effective, FDR began using the colors to refer to the readiness and took to asking “When do we get the brown?” George Marshall wrote this and signed it on one of the original charts, which now hangs on the wall in my father’s den.

@maciejniedzielski7496 3 жыл бұрын

Japan: We' be just attack Hawaii USA Hitler: Scheiße

@vlanAlf 3 жыл бұрын

Support between Axis powers was 0 in general, with exception of Italy which somehow manage to achieve negative numbers.

@generalfred9426 3 жыл бұрын

@@vlanAlf I don't you have been watching the week by week videos The Italians managed to put the entire British Medditerrian Fleet back into port for several months

@vlanAlf 3 жыл бұрын

@@generalfred9426 Honestly I dont know if you are serious or not. Just in case you are: Itally is not able to hold its own territory, they need germans to do so, yet they still opens new fronts eventhough their ally ask them not to do it (when they attacked Greece) and they are not even able to beat one small poor country standing alone (as Greece refuse British offer trying not to provoke germans). Itally is the worst ally you can get, and thats speaks volumes as Japan is a horrible ally, honestly it would be better for Germans if Itally stay neutral. One success on the sea is cute, but it hardly overweights 2 years and 3 months of missery.

@tomjustis7237 3 жыл бұрын

@@vlanAlf I think the Italian soldiers were given an undeserved reputation for incompetence and cowardice during the war. While it is true most of the Italian High Command (not all but most) were incompetent, the individual Italian soldiers were both capable and brave. However (and this is a BIG however) it is hard to get troops of ANY nation, no matter how capable and brave, to lay down their lives for a cause in which they DO NOT BELIEVE! The fact is that while Mussolini sided with Hitler because he wanted to be the next Cesare ruling over an Italian empire, the majority of the Italian people did not agree with this political philosophy and had no desire to either conquer nations or build an empire. In short, the MAJORITY of the Italian people were against the war from the start. Yes, the were exceptions, such as the fanatical fascist Black Shirts, but they were a relatively small percentage of the population. As far as Italy being the worst ally you can get, that is probably true if you are representing a cause with which the Italian people do not agree. On the other hand, if you are representing a cause with which the Italian people DO agree, then I'm sure you will find them to be a capable and worthwhile ally. And in truth, isn't that true of any nationality? BTW, I am NOT of Italian descent.

@johnyarbrough502 3 жыл бұрын

Japan: We have to wrap this thing up in six months or we're screwed. June 1942: Battle of Midway Japan: We're screwed

@psychic_beth 3 жыл бұрын

"Noooo! You can't just have war-winning logistics and supply your troops with two hot meals a day!!!!" Hehe industry go brrrrr

@edwardmiller6883 3 жыл бұрын

I received one hot meal per day I lived well

@finscreenname 3 жыл бұрын

From another web site, In general terms, no 1940’s automobiles were produced in 1943 or 1944. With that said, the auto industry claims there were 139 cars built in 1943 and 610 built in 1944. It could very well be that they used up the existing stock of vehicles and made more, but they were probably assembled from spare parts left over after the assembly lines shut down. It gets a little complicated getting an accurate count, for a few reasons: 1. Some of the 1941 and 1942 models that were left over before the freeze were taken by our military for staff cars, and were titled as 1943, 1944, and 1945 models. 2. War Department document TM-9-2800 from 1943 authorized building certain light and heavy cars for staff use, the light ones were Chevrolet, Ford, and Plymouth, while the heavy ones were Packard and Buick. Again, these were either leftover vehicles repainted for military use, or built with leftover parts. 3. Fred Crismon’s book U.S. Military Wheeled Vehicles (Crestline Series) says that Packard was building blackout versions of the Clipper “as late as 1943” for the U.S. Army. Production started up again in 1945, although these automobiles were built for the 1946 model year. Most makes that were built were warmed over 1942 models for 1946, 1947 and 1948. For example, General Motors first postwar redesign was their 1949 line of automobiles.

@Defossion1 3 жыл бұрын

Singer Sewing Maching company made model 1911 pistols! Those guns are now the holy grail of 1911 collectors.

@jerryrgzz1571 3 жыл бұрын

Hope we can have a similar ep with the evolving indusrtry for Germany and USSR.

@Strydr8105 2 жыл бұрын

I truly believe that FDR had a major impact in making the US, the arsenal of democracy possible. He was the best man for the job, and one of our greatest president's.

@toddmoss1689 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another great installment! Brilliant foresight, planning, and also architectural design by Albert Kahn created two American war production juggernauts in Metro Detroit before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Detroit Tank Arsenal plant in Warren would ultimately outproduce the entire German production and Willow Run in Ypsilanti would eventually roll out B-24 bombers at a rate of one per hour.

@toastnjam7384 3 жыл бұрын

One thing I never thought about until recently is the effort, logistics and planning the US did to quickly and massively expand it's relatively small armed forces after Pearl Harbor..