How the War Was Won

Re:How the War Was Won by hirundo on Monday November 14, 2022 @08:58PM (#33604303)

I had no idea how asymmetrical naval production was in the Pacific theater of WWII until I watched this:

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.

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Re:How the War Was Won by throw0101c on Monday November 14, 2022 @09:29PM (#33604510)

> 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 in the summer of 1944 held more Allied earthmoving bulldozer capability than the Japanese built from 1937 - 1945.

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Re:How the War Was Won by nl on Monday November 14, 2022 @09:59PM (#33604701)

> 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.

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Re:How the War Was Won by throw0101c on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:04PM (#33604734)

The Imperial Japanese Navy thought otherwise, given that they commissioned Komatsu to build a whole bunch:

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Re:How the War Was Won by Arrath on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @12:24PM (#33612191)

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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