From: Jeff Shultz 

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:01:46 -0500, Geo wrote:

> "Dave"  wrote in message
> news:i81nr0lifchtnl5m6jb9dve60t3o5j4s2t{at}4ax.com...
>
>> I was offended by his comment about how we "go to war with the army we
>> have, not the army we wish we had".  I'm glad he wasn't the
Secretary of
>> Defense during WWII.  At least then we had the good sense to tool up
>> before going to war, instead of just rushing into it with what we had.
>
> How did we tool up before war after pearl harbor?
>
> Geo.

By 1. Starting in 1939 (although we really began by tooling up the people
with the quasi-military structured WPA and CCC in the mid-30s), and 2. by
gutting the civilian product industry.

Even so, I don't think we really hit our production stride until mid-1943,
by which time we'd been on the offensive in Africa (and Southern Europe)
and the Pacific for some time. That's a gut feeling, btw, I don't have
numbers to back it up handy.

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