An Historic Accounting:
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 put together a website in 4 years.
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