[CodeToad]

P.S. I’d like to recognize the mining industry that dug up all the iron ore and coal to make all that heavy metal. Talk about an industry that delivered! Just wow.

[colorado tanker]

U.S. industry came up huge in WWII. We also supplied a lot of stuff to the Brits and Russians through "lend-lease." Once industry converted to war production Germany and Japan could only produce a small fraction of what we could.

I think Yamamoto had a pretty good idea of what we could do. He went to Harvard, served two posts in Washington and traveled extensively. He opposed war with the US and only put together his Pearl Harbor plan when Tojo and the Army forced the war on the Navy. Here is his famous (or infamous) quote:

Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it would not be enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians (who speak so lightly of a Japanese-American war) have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.

[colorado tanker]

You're referring to the coal industry that Obummer's EPA is getting ready to shut down? They were here for "hearings" this week that were of course packed with environazis.

Yep, it was that "dirty" industry that was essential to winning WWII.