How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years
For more than a decade, we had very little defense work and certainly no awareness that we would one day be the world’s largest private producer of military “hardware”. This unexpected distinction was achieved during the second period — the years just before and during World War II. In this period we produced an incredible $12 billion of military
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By the war’s end, the United States had produced 84,000 tanks, 2.2 million trucks, 6.2 million rifles, and 41 billion rounds of small ammunition. The war against Hitler may have been a European fight, but it was very much made in the U.S.A. The more U.S. factories made, the more fine-grained their standardization became.
Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
Remember how in the Second World War the Americans were able to pump out masses of planes, trucks, jeeps, tanks and other munitions by converting Ford factories in Detroit and using their giant industrial capacity and their mastery of the moving assembly line?
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