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17-10-2007, 11:25 AM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1   | How America Won the War - Manufacturing I think these photos highlight one reason the US won the war - nobody could match this. Each one seems to strech to infinity. http://www.au.af.mil/au/afhra/photo_...es_in_WWII.htm It would be interesting to compile a list of the manufacturing output of the States between 1939 and 1945.
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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17-10-2007, 11:55 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Outer reaches, Melbourne, Victoria
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You're Top Poster: #2  | Wow, check out all of the Vengeances in the last photo. Don't see them too often. Great a/c, built like a brick sh*thouse.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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17-10-2007, 03:40 PM
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| Super Moderator   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
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You're Top Poster: #3 | This has some of the astonishing figures of the US in manufacture and expenditure. I am unable to find a better one I have however I will keep looking. http://www.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_16.html An example while coping with production of all other aircraft! 3,898 B-29 Super Fortress Very Heavy Bombers Or Year .50 Caliber(1) .30 Caliber 1940 5,155 3,633 1941 49,479 27,672 1942 347,492 314,839 1943 641,638 188,311 1944 677,011 121,771 1945 239,821 62,977 (1)The increasing preponderance of .50-caliber machine guns reflects their growing use as aircraft and armored vehicle armament.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 17-10-2007 at 03:44 PM. |
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