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I had no idea how asymmetrical naval production was in the Pacific theater of WWII until I watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ag2x3CS9M https://ww

I had no idea how asymmetrical naval production was in the Pacific theater of WWII until I watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ag2x3CS9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ag2x3CS9M With these numbers the relative merits of the actual warfighters had little effect on the outcome. The war with Japan was won in U.S. shipyards.

throw0101c 4y ago
> I had no idea how asymmetrical naval production was in the Pacific theater of WWII until I watched this: All production was asymmetrical: > The real measure of Japan as an industrial power in WW2 wasn't it's battleships, so much as it's lack of bulldozers [to, e.g., build airfields]. > A single field in England [see photo] in the summer of 1944 held more Allied earthmoving bulldozer capability than the Japanese built from 1937 - 1945. * https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1403756475995066373 https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1403756475995066373
- nl 4y ago
  > so much as it's lack of bulldozers [to, e.g., build airfields] The Japanese didn't need bulldozers. They had conscripted local labor and their planes could take off and land on dirt strips.
  - throw0101c 4y ago
    The Imperial Japanese Navy thought otherwise, given that they commissioned Komatsu to build a whole bunch: * https://www.kenkenkikki.jp/museum/bulldozer/e_bull1930-04.html https://www.kenkenkikki.jp/museum/bulldozer/e_bull1930-04.ht... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komatsu_Limited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komatsu_Limited
Arrath 4y ago
http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm has always been my go to for this aspect of the Pacific theater. > "The United States built more merchant shipping in the first four and a half months of 1943 than Japan put in the water in seven years."

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I had no idea how asymmetrical naval production was in the Pacific theater of WWII until I watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ag2x3CS9M https://ww

by hirundo 4y ago

throw0101c 4y ago
> I had no idea how asymmetrical naval production was in the Pacific theater of WWII until I watched this: All production was asymmetrical: > The real measure of Japan as an industrial power in WW2 wasn't it's battleships, so much as it's lack of bulldozers [to, e.g., build airfields]. > A single field in England [see photo] in the summer of 1944 held more Allied earthmoving bulldozer capability than the Japanese built from 1937 - 1945. * https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1403756475995066373 https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1403756475995066373
- nl 4y ago
  > so much as it's lack of bulldozers [to, e.g., build airfields] The Japanese didn't need bulldozers. They had conscripted local labor and their planes could take off and land on dirt strips.
  - throw0101c 4y ago
    The Imperial Japanese Navy thought otherwise, given that they commissioned Komatsu to build a whole bunch: * https://www.kenkenkikki.jp/museum/bulldozer/e_bull1930-04.html https://www.kenkenkikki.jp/museum/bulldozer/e_bull1930-04.ht... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komatsu_Limited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komatsu_Limited
Arrath 4y ago
http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm has always been my go to for this aspect of the Pacific theater. > "The United States built more merchant shipping in the first four and a half months of 1943 than Japan put in the water in seven years."