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How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years

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It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial output. Even before the U.S. entered the war, the Americans provided hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of equipment to the Allies, and between 1938 and 1943 U.S. manufacturing output tripled as production of munitions ramped up. Over the course of the war the U.S. produced around 5,600 cargo ships, 80,000 landing craft, 2.4 million trucks, 2.6 million machine guns, and 41 billion rounds of ammunition. One of the most important elements in the “Arsenal of Democracy” was aircraft. Over the course of the war the U.S. produced around 325,000 airplanes valued at roughly $46 billion ($800 billion in 2024 dollars). Not only is this more aircraft than what Germany, Japan, and Italy combined produced during the war — it’s also more aircraft than have been built for commercial transport in the entire history of aviation.1 Creating an aircraft industry capable of producing planes by the hundreds of

How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years Brian Potter May 23, 2024 366 58 51 Share B-25 bombers being assembled in North American Aviation’s Inglewood, California factory, 1942 It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial output. Even before the U.S. entered the war, the Americans provided hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of equipment to the Allies, and between 1938 and 1943 U.S. manufacturing output tripled as production of munitions ramped up. Over the course of the war the U.S. produced around 5,600 cargo ships, 80,000 landing craft

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