My dear departed father who servied in Burma often stated that America’s manafacturing might and logisitics won WW2.
That’s exactly what won WW2 - the Sherman was a piece of junk compared to the Panzer, Panther, Tiger tanks - but we made a zillion of them, and they were simple to maintain, relatively good on gas, and fast.
Germans, as they do sometimes, over engineered magnificent machines - so great were they that they could not be mass produced, and sometimes were not reliable.
This also played out on the Eastern front, where the crappy T-34s of the Soviets overwhelmed the superior German tanks on sheer numbers, not to mention logistical supply lines.
American know how expressed in a million ways in the manufacture, transport and application of its industrial might during WW2 was a major factor in winning that war.
We fought a war on three fronts--Europe, Africa/Italy, and the Pacific--simultaneously, and all that had to be supplied.
Just the complexity of building a submarine or a bomber is might numbing.
You can see videos on You Tube on how B-24 Liberators were mass produced.
Also, how bombing raids of hundreds of planes were planned and executed in the days before computers, satellite communications and GPS systems.
Incredible accomplishments.
After the war, this generation built the modern American cities, the Interstate Highway system,and sent men to the moon and back.
Truly, the greatest generation.
Yup. I'd add the Victory ship to the list of logistical WW2 brilliance.
Give the GI a tool to use, lots of them and get the hell out of his way!
IIRC, America produce at least one LST per day by the end of the war. Could be wrong, but that number just floored me when I read that.
The Sherman was adequate because we produced so many - and because we had the BEST AIRPLANE of the war.
The P-51 cleared the skis of German fighters, which allowed bombers to operate with near impunity from April 1944 onward. The P-51 could then go after targets like trains and trucks behind the lines, while the heavier P-47 could attack tanks on the front-lines
My father, a career Army officer and veteran of WW2, Korea, and Viet-Nam, said the same thing.