posted on May, 28 2004 @ 05:27 PM
it is no accident that factories are a primary target during wartime. A countries manufacturing ability is directly tied to their chances of winning a
war. Americas entry into WW2 was cause for alarm to Japan and German strategists simply due to Americas manufacturing capacity, and nothing else.
Being able to supply thousands of tanks, fighters, Bombers, and millions of bullets and bombs every month tipped the scale to the Allied powers, even
if all other things were not equal. The Kaiser shipyards in Oakland California were building a Liberty Ship each day, to move the tanks, fighters, and
bullets to Europe and Asia. Amazing what America could manufacture. Today we cannot hope to even come close.
Germany was actually ahead of the US in atomic weapons research, and a brave Dutch underground resistance fighter smuggled himself onto a ship
carrying research components for the A-Bomb. He blew himself and the ship up, setting germany back several years in atomic research. Otherwise...it
would have been a far more difficult war to win, or settle for peace with Germany keeping Europe.