How to Build 300k Airplanes in Five Years

Re:How to Build 300k Airplanes in Five Years by sbmthakur on Friday May 24, 2024 @02:18PM (#40468966)

Absolutely had no idea about US preparedness before WW1. Any books that shed more light on it?

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Re:How to Build 300k Airplanes in Five Years by credit_guy on Friday May 24, 2024 @08:31PM (#40471703)

I don't remember where I read that. But I just checked on wikipedia and it looks like the US had rifles to provide to its white soldiers, but not to its African-American soldiers, which formed 13% of the force. There was a whole combat division (the 93rd) that was equipped with the French Berthier rifle [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Forces#...

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