@Nisse_Hult
We sent roughly to the USSR: 400,000 jeeps & trucks, 14,000 airplanes, 8,000 tractors, 13,000 tanks, 1.5 million blankets, 15 million pairs of army boots, 107,000 tons of cotton, 2.7 million tons of petrol products, 4.5 million tons of food.
Manufacturing is manufacturing -- especially given that it needed to be transported halfway across the globe to reach the Soviet Army. Much of that food had to be packaged and contained, which required heavy industry, the likes of which no country on earth could have done.
There was also a second theatre in the War you Europeans often forget about that American arms and manufacturing very much did win. The Japanese were shocking in terms of who and how they brutalized -- very much on the level of the Nazis in some ways. What they did in Nanking was so bad even the Germans stationed there at the time were stunned. The burden of the Pacific front was almost completely borne by the USA, and we won it because we could out-produce and out-manufacture Japan.
Edit: Oh shit, I missed your middle paragraph -- nice! Glad at least one of y'all remembered. Yeah.
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@Nisse_Hult
We sent roughly to the USSR: 400,000 jeeps & trucks, 14,000 airplanes, 8,000 tractors, 13,000 tanks, 1.5 million blankets, 15 million pairs of army boots, 107,000 tons of cotton, 2.7 million tons of petrol products, 4.5 million tons of food.
Manufacturing is manufacturing -- especially given that it needed to be transported halfway across the globe to reach the Soviet Army. Much of that food had to be packaged and contained, which required heavy industry, the likes of which no country on earth could have done.
There was also a second theatre in the War you Europeans often forget about that American arms and manufacturing very much did win. The Japanese were shocking in terms of who and how they brutalized -- very much on the level of the Nazis in some ways. What they did in Nanking was so bad even the Germans stationed there at the time were stunned. The burden of the Pacific front was almost completely borne by the USA, and we won it because we could out-produce and out-manufacture Japan.
Edit: Oh shit, I missed your middle paragraph -- nice! Glad at least one of y'all remembered. Yeah.