In this episode, we can see the " How Powerful the Assembly Line " is. Mass Production.
The sleepy giant will awake.
In the air, the evolution of the aviation from V-12 engine to jet-turbine engine. Fighter, Bomber.
On the sea, the battleship to aircraft carrier, and submarine.
On the land, M4 Sherman, T-34, Tiger, Panther tanks.
Weapon : The formidable atomic bomb.
Society : Feminism. The female come out of the home and enter factories to build from
ammunition, cloth, tank, ship, airplane...
The World War II changed anything and everything.
By entering into the war, the United States transforms itself into a superpower in only four years.
With the war comes purposes and determination. American industry goes into overdrive.
December 7, 1941.
Silence. Let pictures say the whole story. The movie " Pearl harbor ".
I find pictures more vicarious to feel the terrible war.
The " Japanese Zero ". It can fly 2000 miles without refueling.
Now, 183 Japanese fighters and bombers are heading for Hawaii. Another 170 follow right behind.
27 hours after the attack, America declares war on Japan.
Threes days later, the US is at war with Germany. It unleashed the wrath of America.
Once provoked, that massive tiger of engineering was awakened. We had factories that were
sitting underutilized in Detroit and around the country because of Great Depression.
P-51 Mustang Assembly Line
Just experience the formidable and redoubtable assembly line !! Revving Up !!
There was no country that had a deeper economy base and an enormous pool of not just labor,
but of scientists and engineers and technicians.
Jeep Willy
What the Jeep symbolize in the World War II was not cutting-edge technologies, although it was a 4WD vehicle. But what the Jeep really shows was the power of American manufacturing.
Designed by Bantam and produced by Willy-Overland and Ford.
We can the best secret weapon in this picture and below.
" Women "
Vintage B&W Willys Jeep Factory Photos
Three jeeps are produced every four minutes by the end of the war.
The Father of SUV.
" Ford Model T + Tractor = Jeep "
The plan : Overwhelm the enemy through mass production. The depression is suddenly over.
It was actually the women back in the nation that were ones working in the factories, that were
putting the tanks together, building the ships and airplanes.
The precedent of what women had accomplished in World War II did linger in the memory of the
society at large and energized the " Second Wave Feminism " in 1960s.
First they survived the Depression, now their risk their lives every day for the country at war.
The greatest generation in terms of people who would sacrifice give something of themselves.
** First Wave Feminism : Suffrage
Second Wave Feminism : Equal in working places.
B-17 Bomber , The Flying Fortress .
Norden Bombsight
August 17, 1942.
Target in sight Germany, Bombs away !!
Day time bombing. Success.
Paul Tibbets
For every B-17 shot down, American workers produced two more. overwhelm the enemy.
1943
10 million Americans have been drafted.
During the Revolution War, 1/6 of all George Washington's soldiers were black men.
World War II changed the entire world, but it certainly changed the American, the black American
psyche in a way and made possible " The Civil Rights Movement" of the 50s and the 60s.
June 1944
Operation Overlord,
D-Day, Normandy Landing. Saving Private Ryan.
The blood is turned into plasma, so it can be used on the battlefield.
" William Dabney " now knows what his special service is. He has to drag the barrage balloons
ashore when under heavy fire. It is tacit designed to block German aircraft from strafing Allied troops.
LCVP : Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel
Omaha Beach
The D-Day is the key of Hitler's defeat.
Victory in Europe.
The Pacific. HBO Miniseries
Iwo Jima Battle
Midway Battle
July 16, 1945.
" Manhattan Project", " Robert Oppenheimer "
The World War II ended.
The greatest generations come homes.
America's distance from battle leaves its infrastructure intact and its economy vibrant.
World War transform USA in only 4 years.
Americans make twice as much money as they did before the war.
They 50 million babies in 15 years.
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