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> 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
by 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 agoThe 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