I'm just trying to imagine us producing those things in those numbers in any time frame under decades at the present moment.

And that's not even including what went to Britain, or eventually into the US' own war effort.

It's staggering. Almost as staggering as the number of bodies stalin sent to the front lines with lines behind them to shoot deserters dead. Yeah, there was a lot of material, but the human capital is obscene. It's fucking shocking what it actually took to stop Germany.

And for what? So the bankers could wring their hands and get their interest payments.