What can the USA do in three and a half years?

[chittlin]

During the 3-1/2 years of World War 2 that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, the U.S. produced 22 aircraft carriers, 8 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 420 destroyer escorts, 203 submarines, 34 million tons of merchant ships, 100,000 fighter aircraft, 98,000 bombers, 24,000 transport aircraft, 58,000 training aircraft, 93,000 tanks, 257,000 artillery pieces, 105,000 mortars, 3,000,000 machine guns, and 2,500,000 military trucks.

We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany.

It's worth noting, that during the almost exact amount of time, the Obama administration couldn't build a functioning web site.

[hosepipe]

What the United States CAN’T DO IS!.....

1) make socialism illegal...
2) prosecute traitors...
3) stop sedition...
4) hang progressives as enemies..
5) elect republicans with balls that believe in capitalism..
6) speak the truth about the democrats and the democrat party..
7) know the truth about marijuana..
8) States seceding from an unconstitutional rogue federal givernment..

and other things..

[goat granny]

in reality, WW 2 is what actually got us out of the depression. Men in the military, women in the work force, after the war, women went back to caring for her family and there were plenty of jobs for the military men coming home. Under the GI bill, education was available, and FHA made it possible to buy homes..

[haroldeveryman]

Ironically, the science that led to the atomic bomb was pioneered in Axis countries: Italy (Fermi) and Germany (Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn).

[ScottinVA]

While distressing, this isn’t really surprising. America isn’t the same country that mobilized to defeat the Axis in WWII. This country’s so hogtied by its internal politics now that such a mobilization would never occur. The government website is one such example. After nearly four years, dismal failure is the result.

Imagine trying to send astronauts to the moon now... the special interest groups wanting a piece of the action would tangle up such a program for decades. Good God, we don’t even have a manned space program anymore.

Also, while I’m no fan of Roosevelt, he at least allowed America to be on the winning side. Thank God the Marxists in today’s American regime weren’t in power then... we’d have been under occupation inside of 18 months.

[daniel1212]

Impressive numbers.

Indeed, but where is the source(s)?

[daniel1212]

Navy’s new $12b aircraft carrier beset with performance problems

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[ealgeone]

I got it of Wikipedia along with some books on World War Two.

[daniel1212]

Thanks. My dad used to say they could build a frigate in 3 weeks during the War.