See Post #48 about a similar ramp-up of aircraft technology and manufacturing in WW I.
That book was full of neat stories about how we handled things, from something as simple as re-arranging production lines to taking trucks apart.
I think it was Knudsen who visited a plant and noticed how the assembly lines were laid out - the item would move along the line to the end, then be transported down to the far end of the next line to continue the process, on and on. Knudsen reversed every other line so the part just moved across the aisle rather than all the way down the end to continue. Increased production by 20% without stressing the workers
We were shipping thousands of trucks to Russia, when somebody complained that they were taking up too much room in the ships. They found that they could ship 10 times as many if they took the trucks apart. They set up re-assembly plants in Iran, using the locals, and then drove the finished product to Russia.
We won on many fronts just by sheer ingenuity.