America built an astounding number of weapons and built them faster than they enemy could destroy them.
Key point: Some of Berlin s weapons may have been better, but they could not replace their losses. During the war, America built 86,000 tanks and 297,000 aircraft.
“We won because we smothered the enemy in an avalanche of production, the like of which he had never seen, nor dreamed possible.”
This first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest.
The above quote is attributed to William Knudsen, president of General Motors and Roosevelt’s wartime director of production management, a man who was intimately involved in the massive production drive that made the U.S. military the best supplied military in the world during World War II.