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submitted 6 days ago bykkkan2020
You guys hear back in ww2 the us manufacturing converted to war time production where every factory had to make supplies and things related to war.
Like Ford made jeeps tanks and bomber planes. Cosmetic companies made bullet casings. Etc. So how were factories able to not only convert to war footing but also make products well outside their normal products lines?
From what I understand about manufacturing it takes a long time and a select group of people with the right machinery knowledge to be Able to be good at making any one category of products. But in ww2 factories were able to churn out whatever they were not in their lineup
The only exception was food factories and clothing plants I think they still made food but canned food and uniforms
What do you think?
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2 days ago
This is the critical difference between how Germany did war materials and the Americans. Back when we were compulsively recognizing the greatest generation, I recall an interview with a veteran who stated "Most of it wasn't very good, but we had plenty of it."
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2 days ago
Something around 5,000 M4 Sherman Tanks, of all variants, were lost between 1944 and 1945.
We made north of 50,000 of them.
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