I thought the government did all that.
“I thought the government did all that.”
That’s actually covered in the first part of the book. FDR wanted the government to build its own factories to build munitions and armaments. He was prevailed upon to have US industry do it. Thank God he did otherwise we probably would not have won the war.
The government paid private industry, of course.
The Govt had almost no industrial capacity to produce anything. ,Only a couple antiquated arsenals. Early R and D contracts issued in the late 30’s known as Educational Contracts paved th he way for speeded up production methods for 20 and 40 AA AMMO and 4 lb incendiary bombs used in the raid on Tokyo. I have worked on dozens of environmental cleanup cases including Willow Run, Detroit Automotive Command M4A3s, etc. Once we got private industry up and run ing, the Axis powers were going to lose just on the sheer basis of our massive procurement programs.