Posted on 05/14/2020 3:47:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Seventy-five years ago this month, Germany surrendered, ending the European theater of World War II. At the war's beginning, no one believed Germany would utterly collapse in May 1945.
On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, German invaders were on the verge of capturing Moscow. Britain was isolated. London had barely survived a terrible German bombing during the Blitz.
A sleeping America was neutral, but it was beginning to realize it was weak and mostly unarmed in a scary world.
But by 1943, a booming U.S. economy was fielding vast military forces from Alaska to the Sahara. Britain and America were bombing the German heartland. The Soviet Red Army had trapped and destroyed a million-man German army at Stalingrad.
How did the Allies -- Britain, the Soviet Union and the U.S. -- turn around the European war so quickly?
The huge Red Army would suffer close to 11 million deaths in halting German offensives. Britain would never give up despite terrible losses at home and at sea from German bombers, rockets and submarines.
Yet the key to victory was the U.S. economy. It would eventually outproduce all the major economies on both sides of the war combined.
But how did the U.S. arm so quickly, build such effective weapons so soon, and from almost nothing field a military some 12 million strong?
Neo-socialist President Franklin D. Roosevelt unleashed American business under the aegis of successful entrepreneurs such as Henry Ford of the Ford Motor Company, William Knudsen of General Motors, Henry Kaiser of Kaiser Shipyards and Charles Wilson of General Electric.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
If the USA can overcome a world war, it can overcome this plague.
Absolutely
It’s our faith in God and being blessed with a geographically strategic and rich land. The only thing that can bring us down is subversion from within.
What an uplifting, wonderful article.
The main difference now is that democrats are happy to completely destroy the economy in an attempt to destroy Trump, while the MSM exalts their treachery as acts of caring and concern for people.
You got that right. Best read in awhile.
How many risk-takers will there be, knowing that everything for which one has risked all one has can be taken from them at the whim of a government official?
The worst part is the breathless recitation.
of bad stats, without context
X million out of work with nary a word about
where and why
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