During the
3-1/2 years of World War 2 that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl
Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in
1945, the U.S. produced 22 aircraft carriers, 8 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349
destroyers, 420 destroyer escorts, 203 submarines, 34 million tons of merchant
ships, 100,000 fighter aircraft, 98,000 bombers, 24,000 transport aircraft,
58,000 training aircraft, 93,000 tanks, 257,000 artillery pieces, 105,000
mortars, 3,000,000 machine guns, and 2,500,000 military trucks.
We put
16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa,
invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed
D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and
ultimately conquered Japan and Germany.
It's worth
noting, that during the almost exact amount of time, the Obama administration
couldn't build a functioning web site.
No comments:
Post a Comment