“Thanks Homer... Interesting to see STRIKING miners.. even during the war efforts.. and, good ol Harold Ickes Sr dithering and doing not much of anything.”
I cannot imagine striking miners getting much sympathy from all the moms, dads and wives who have loved ones dying overseas.
“Amazing, still... how LONG this all took.”
In the context of history, the global breadth and scope of this war was unprecedented. And may never be seen again. Not so much how long it took, but rather that all of the world mobilized for it and how the battlefields ebbed and flowed across so much of the earth’s surface in four or five short years.
It was a war that began in 1939 with biplanes and cavalry charges. In 1945 it ended with jet fighters and nuclear weapons.
Man...I sure HOPE not. It's been obvious from reading this series of postings... THE WAR, was everything in these people's lives.. for a long, long time.
As you say, the advancements in science and technology were amazing. The business I work in today, styrene monomer (chemicals), was developed during the war.... as a way to mass produce synthetic rubber for tires.
The work those engineers did building the first plants was nothings short of amazing. They TRIPLED the capacity of the plants, WHILE they were constructing it... and, all this without the benefit of computers.
There are many POSITIVE lasting legacies from the war effort.