Interesting stat I came across years ago. Germany produced around 1300 Tiger I tanks. The USA produced about 1400 naval vessels whose displacement exceeded 1000 tons. People today have little understanding of the enormity of our production capacity during the war.
I downloaded a series called "War Factories" from a British torrent site. It is an excellent program that details the production between Germany, Japan, Britain, and the U.S.
This is the British network that aired the show, and episode information:
“Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II” by Arthur Herman, published May 2012 is a fantastic read and analysis about how we built materiel at an unprecedented scale. Highly recommended.
It’s amazing to think how that was accomplished with so many men off at war.
The U.S. produced a thousand Shermans a month.
By then end of WWII, the United States had more ships in its Navy than ALL the ships of the rest of the world combined!
There came a point in the war (October 1943, IIRC) when the US was producing a Liberty ship for every torpedo produced for the Kriegsmarine; after that point, the gap between the two only grew. (Meaning, of course, that even if every German torpedo struck an American Liberty ship and sank it with just one shot, the Germans didn't have enough torpedoes in their arsenal to sink the American Liberty ship fleet.)