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It’s Homer J Simpson not Homer G Simpson. lol.
It took a long time to ramp up material production and train troops. They had broomsticks instead of guns and trucks with signs on them “I am a tank”. We still had, I think, horse mounted cavalry when Pearl Harbor was hit.
With the Pacific fleet decimated and the news of Japan invading and occupying all sorts of countries and islands in the Pacific, I bet it all seemed rather hopeless in the beginning.