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To: MinorityRepublican
It took the US about two years to transport our army and air force and all that goes with that to the UK. This required a massive production of Liberty ships along with escort carriers and destroyers to secure the Atlantic. We also had considerable help from the UK in securing the Atlantic.

The actual invasion of Normandy, just in terms of ships, involved 1,213 warships, 4,126 transport vessels and about 1,600 vessels of other types.

The US produced 2,710 Liberty ships and 534 Victory ships to transport this stuff to the ETO and PTO.

In addition, the US produced 35,000 landing craft to get the troops ashore.

Let's also not forget we produced 24 Essex class aircraft carriers along with 101 escort type carriers. And we were slowing production down of these in late '44/early '45.

The key stat though was oil production. We were self sufficient and Germany wasn't.

Simply put, Germany did not have the industrial base to produce anything near this requirement to deploy a force across the Atlantic and to sustain it.

The US was the only country with the industrial base to be able to conduct a two front strategy while supplying its two major allies with substantial military aid.

48 posted on 08/02/2015 8:39:02 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

“Simply put, Germany did not have the industrial base to produce anything near this requirement to deploy a force across the Atlantic and to sustain it.”

...which is why they were so interested in lightning war. Had they consolidated their gains, the territories that they took had those resources.


53 posted on 08/02/2015 8:48:12 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: ealgeone

“This required a massive production of Liberty ships along with escort carriers and destroyers to secure the Atlantic. “

Well, as Stalin supposedly said, “Quantity has a quality all of its own”.


54 posted on 08/02/2015 8:50:57 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: ealgeone

Ship and oil production - crucial factors you note.


73 posted on 08/02/2015 10:30:55 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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