[ealgeone]

This person is bereft of knowledge of history and the US industrial capacity.

Assume the scenario unfolded as described American war production would have stepped up and those resources would have been shifted to the Pacific.

There is an interesting website that allows for this situation but shows US and Japanese carrier/plane production.

Even if Midway would have been lost, we were going to swamp Japan in terms of production.

They were going to lose.

[Last Dakotan]

This person is bereft of knowledge of history and the US industrial capacity.

Our adversaries have learned this lesson, we have forgotten it.

The former Warner & Swasey machine tool works, Cleveland OH

[LS]

You are 100% right. We fought the Pacific War on 20% (!!!) of our resources, with 80% going to defeat Hitler. And that was after the a-bomb program took whatever was needed off the top.