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Powerful enemies must be out-fought and out-produced, President Franklin Roosevelt told Congress and his countrymen less than a month after Pearl Harbor is not enough to still turn some planes, some tanks, a few more guns a little more ships than returnable by our enemies, he said we need them out mass production, so it can be no question of our ability to provide an overwhelming superiority of the equipment in a theater of war World.
Two years earlier, the military preparedness of America was not that of a nation waiting to go to war in 1939, the US Army has ranked thirty-ninth in the world, with a cavalry force fifty thousand using horses to pull artillery Many Americans still trying to recover from the ordeal decade of the Great depression have been reluctant to participate in the conflict that spread throughout Europe and Asia President Roosevelt did what he could to coax a reluctant nation to focus its economic power on military preparation If the US military still wasn t equal to the Germans or the Japanese, American workers could build ships and aircraft faster than the enemy could sink them or shoot them.
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, the President has set huge goals for factories in the country 60 000 aircraft in 1942 and 125,000 in 1943; 120000 reservoir in the same period, 55,000 anti-aircraft guns in an attempt to coordinate Council government agencies Roosevelt War created war production in 1942 and later in 1943, the Mobilization Office war to raise money for defense, the government relied on a number of techniques calling the American people to ration certain products, generate more tax revenue by reducing the personal exemption and the sale of war bonds the government to individuals and financial institutions All these methods was used to provide government revenue and at the same time to keep inflation under control.
War production profoundly changed the US industry companies are already engaged in the broader defense work Others, such as the automotive industry, have been completely transformed in 1941, more than three million cars were manufactured in the States United only 139 others have been made during the war the whole place, Chrysler fuselages General motors made aircraft engines, guns, trucks and tanks Packard is the Rolls-Royce engines for the British air force and its large Willow Run plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Ford Motor Company achieved something as a miracle of 24 hours per day on average Ford car had some 15,000 rooms the B-24 Liberator long-range bomber had a 1,550,000 left the line every 63 minutes.
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America has launched several ships in 1941 as Japan did in the whole shipyard tonnage war turned out so fast that in the fall of 1943 all Allied ships sunk since 1939 had been replaced in 1944 alone, US built more airplanes than the Japanese have made 1939 1945 at the end of the war, more than half of industrial production in the world would take place in the United States.
Production during the war boomed as citizens flocked to meet the labor tensions request were often high between unions, which, despite the no-strike commitment felt the need to protect workers' rights and could not stop the strikes altogether, and citizens were outraged to learn the work stoppages in a case where the United mine Workers went on strike in 1943, the newspapers condemned the minors as traitors June 25, 1943 , Congress passed the war labor disputes Smith-Connally Act, which authorized the President to support the necessary plants to the war effort or in which war production was stopped due to a labor dispute.
While 16 million men and women marched to war, 24 million more displaced in search of defense jobs, often for a higher salary than they had previously never won eight million women entered in the labor force and ethnic groups such as African Americans and Latinos found employment opportunities like never before.
Most people who are out of high school if they were women and didn t go to war, they went to Mobile, said Emma Belle Petcher who moved to the city of the small town of Millry, Alabama it was the place to go and get a job and there were all kinds of jobs.
The Second World War completely transformed its economy Mobile and The explosion began in the 1930s, when local companies such as Alcoa began producing war materials to Japan and European countries local shipyards have won contracts to build Liberty ships and destroyers in 1940, and when the war entered America in late 1941, mobile was already booming Alcoa plant processed millions of pounds of alumina used to build most America produced 304,000 aircraft during the war; Waterman Steamship Company boasted one of the largest merchant fleets in the nation, and Mobile became one of the shipping busiest ports and shipbuilding in the nation in 1940, the Gulf Shipbuilding had 240 employees ; in 1943, there were 11600 Alabama Dry Dock increased from 1,000 workers at nearly 30,000.
As mobile shipyards and facilities repair plan near Sacramento in Waterbury Connecticut factories have been transformed to follow the war Mattatuck The Company manufacture Password manufacturing upholstery nails cartridge clips for the Springfield rifle, and soon turned three million videos a week the American brass Company has more than two billion pounds of brass rods, sheets and tubes during the war Chase brass and Copper Company made more than 50 million cases of cartridges and mortar shells more than a billion small-caliber bullets and possibly the components used in the atomic bomb.
Library of Congress lines airplane propellors, ready to ship a Hartford, CT connection factory in the background reads every minute counts.
Scovill Manufacturing has produced so many different military items, Waterbury Republican reported that there wasn t an American or British man fight that was not been dependent on the company for a portion of food, clothing, housing and equipment that sustained in the fight.
Many factories ran around the clock It was seven days a week, said Clyde Odom Mobile And during the war when he was so strong, it was twelve hours a day, five days a week, ten hours on Saturday, eight hours on Sunday, you felt like you have been off a week and lived with, more, more and more and more.
Money seems to be the least of the concerns, Ray Leopold of Waterbury told The thing was to produce material that will win the war and bring their boys home.
With the booming economy, Americans believe that their life improved.
Things started getting better and better for the people who had to stay, Sacramento William Perkins says people really did well economically and it was a big boost for the end of the depression until the end of the war and just drove on.
In the three years since the Battle of Midway, the Japanese built six aircraft carriers built 17 U S.
American industry has provided nearly two-thirds of all military equipment produced allies during the war aircraft 297000, 193000 artillery, tanks and two 86,000 million army trucks.
In four years, US industrial production, already the largest, doubled the size of the world.
The U S Office of War Information created this film in 1943 on how the country worked together to win the war in August 32.
World War II - the single largest coordinated effort in US history - could cost term in the United States 304 billion dollars, the equivalent of more than three trillion dollars in terms of taxes alone today could never pay for anything that required a series of annual war bond drives the whole country was involved a quarter of the bonds were purchased by individuals; the rest by companies and financial institutions.
Photos Culver dancing girls dressed as Uncle Sam play before a large Stamps Buy war and sign bonds.
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