Post by 101ABN on Jan 8, 2014 21:51:46 GMT -8
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
-8 battleships
-22 aircraft carriers
-48 cruisers
-203 submarines
-349 destroyers
-420 destroyer escorts
-34 million tons of merchant ships
-24,000 transport aircraft
-58,000 training aircraft
-98,000 bombers
-100,000 fighter aircraft
-93,000 tanks
-105,000 mortars
-257,000 artillery pieces
-2,500,000 military trucks
-3,000,000 machine guns
We also
-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
-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.