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> US scrap metal companies were furiously selling scrap to Germany & Japan in 1939 In Herman Wouk's novel The Winds of War, an admiral, aboard an aircraft carr
by dctoedt 2y ago
> US scrap metal companies were furiously selling scrap to Germany & Japan in 1939
In Herman Wouk's novel The Winds of War, an admiral, aboard an aircraft carrier near Pearl Harbor in 1940 or -41, groused to his officers that (paraphrasing from memory) "sooner or later the [Japanese] are going to come steaming over the horizon, burning Texaco oil and shooting pieces of old Buicks at us."
- pjmorris 2y agoI asked my friend to recommend his favorite historical novels, and they were 'The Winds of War' and 'War and Remembrance.' It's amazing how much history is embedded in them, well worth the time to read.