Waking the Sleeping Giant - America Prepares for War - WW2 Special

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As the United States enter World War Two, a huge industrial giant awakens from hibernation. This episode covers Industrial Mobilization plans, their execution, and their potential.
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Written by: Joram Appel
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Edited by: Karolina Dołęga
Sound design: Marek Kamiński
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@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

We're back to our regular tri-weekly upload schedule after a much needed holiday break. We have been filming a bunch of new specials and bios, so we have that to look forward to. Do you like our videos and do you want to contribute our own little mobilization? Join the TimeGhost Army on patreon.com/timeghosthistory or timeghost.tv. Cheers, Please read our Community Guidelines before commenting: community.timeghost.tv/t/rules-of-conduct/4518

@HarrisonGoldfarb 3 года назад

Hi! Would it be possible to see some WWII mech soon? Thanks!

@QuizmasterLaw 3 года назад

How do you raise the cash needed to prosecute a global war? If you're Hjalmo Schacht you borrow a lot of money which is only due to be repaid After the war you're planning. If you're the USA: you float bonds. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U_r1G8HTKR0.html LOTS of bonds.

@alexandertippett4815 3 года назад

Are there any good books on the American mobilization?

@indianajones4321 3 года назад

The effort in these specials is truly amazing, previously you did a special on logistics in the eastern front, could you do a similar episode on logistics in the Pacific Campaign?

@josedavidgarcesceballos7 3 года назад

Hi guts, now that I remember, what happened to the homefront episodes? Its has been a while...

@rick7424 3 года назад

Who was the best general of WWII? General Motors.

@JMgamer909 3 года назад

That’s class😂

@m1994a3jagnew 3 года назад

The winter*

@christosvoskresye 3 года назад

@@m1994a3jagnew aka General Frost

@m1994a3jagnew 3 года назад

@@christosvoskresye Commisar Cold

@JGlennFL 3 года назад

And our two best allies? Atlantic and Pacific.

@L.J.Kommer 3 года назад

"Haha. I'm in danger." -Admiral Yamamoto, 1941, probably

@susanmaggiora4800 3 года назад

L.J. Kommer 🤣

@naja2270 3 года назад

I wish this was true lol

@DOSFS 3 года назад

P-38 : Y E S, U R

@jaxwagen4238 3 года назад

Forked-tails inbound

@TheNinjaDC 3 года назад

I mean, he knew it. Yamamoto was one of the biggest opponents to starting a war with America. But, like with general Lee and his home of Virginia, he just tried to make the best out if the sh#@ sandwich his superiors handed him that he never wanted.

@ixlzz 3 года назад

My father, who was too young to enlist at the start of the war, remembers the 'government men' arriving at the manufacturing company owned by my grandfather. They looked everything over, assessed capability, placed orders on the spot for wartime components, and confiscated some pieces of machinery that were not being used at present, intending to ship them to factories and shops that could use them for their own government orders. The gov boys did also ask what machine tools granddad could use to better help in his own production of parts, and those items were delivered to him within just weeks and left for the duration of the war, sourced from the factories of others. None of Grandfather's confiscated machines were returned to him after the war, but he stated he had been well compensated for his losses. My dad ended up lying about his age a couple years later, enlisted, and fought on Saipan in the Pacific Theater. He was still just a kid.

@SamAronow 3 года назад

That part about worker input is interesting, because it's something that American academics introduced to Japan after the war. In fact, Japan's postwar economic miracle is in large part a product of American economic studies during the war. And of course, the American management put a firm end to that kind of cooperation when the war ended, and American heavy industry began to fall behind.

@cenccenc946 3 года назад

My father lied about his age too. Joined the marines at 15 and was sent to the Philippines. He said people were not looking too close at his documents in those days. After the war he recieved a draft notice for korea, even though he was exempt as a vet. The draft board did not expect anyone so young to be a vet. He said since he was there anyway, he asked if he could volunteer to join the marines again. so, off he went.

@johnyarbrough502 3 года назад

@@SamAronow W. E. Demings developed Total Quality Management concepts working for occupation forces in Japan. Japanese Scientific Association awards Demings Prize for achievement in efficiency and productivity.

@thurin84 3 года назад

there was a war to win afterall.

@Conn30Mtenor 3 года назад

Cool story.

@IronTulikettu 3 года назад

Japan cripples U.S. Pacific fleet. Japan: "Why do I still hear boss music?"

@s2eforme 3 года назад

US navy: "Crippled navy is a state of mind"

@KojanRiktan 3 года назад

The US has two health bars.

@piltdownman2151 3 года назад

@@KojanRiktan Yes, but they just found a power-up

@SergeantAradir 3 года назад

US has bought all the microtransactions. #pay2win4thewin

@Duke_of_Lorraine 3 года назад

Official telegram from FDR to Tojo after Pearl Harbor : "oh noooo my daily production of battleships. BTW omae wa mou shindeiru"

@Protorit 3 года назад

After pearl happens, I always imagined that FDR momentarily forgets that he can't walk and walks across the room to a glass box marked "break incase of emergency" and spartan kicks it. Inside the box is "infinite budget", "unemployment solved" and "factories goes Brrrrrrr".

@tyvernoverlord5363 3 года назад

You take the interwebz brownie points sir! I just about shook the apartment when I read that

@NormAppleton 3 года назад

Yeah, it was already in motion.

@tylerunderwood8317 Год назад

This is the funniest comment I have ever read but I say your right on all three

@Spiz103 3 года назад

To quote a certain Auto Executive hired by the Roosevelt adminstration to help coordinate all this, William S Knudsen, "We won because we smothered the enemy in an avalanche of production, the like of which he had never seen, nor dreamed possible."

@thurin84 3 года назад

and to think, we can do it again.

@External2737 3 года назад

Knudsen and his team won the war. The B-29 would never have made it into service without his rework plan (stop mucking up production by producing know defective and set up factories in Kansas City to fix prior B-29s. When the full fix, say the windows popping out, was complete switch, then wiring and instrumentation.

@Jay-ho9io 3 года назад

@@thurin84 unlikely.

@thurin84 3 года назад

@@Jay-ho9io hahahahahaha uh huhh. sure lol.

@hertzwave8001 3 года назад

@@thurin84 yea we def couldnt do this to the same extent with modern arleigh burkes and ticonderogas

@jonathanbrown7250 3 года назад

Hitler "Hey, let's get America swinging at us too, in exchange for Japan giving us zero help with Russia." Best - Trade - Ever.

@marrvynswillames4975 3 года назад

Japan had no reason to attack russia, they needed recources, not frozen wastedland, specially after germany giving no help for japan in 1938

@_ArsNova 3 года назад

90% of the comments are this exact same format of stupid "make fake meme historical quote from perspective of a nation or general about 'uh oh Axis in trouble'" is incredibly stale and unfunny.

@ThebearCornal 3 года назад

@@_ArsNova As of time of typing, 45 folks find it funny, or at least liked it enough to hit that button while 4 find it unfunny. Curious.

@jonathanbrown7250 3 года назад

@@_ArsNova Here's a thought. If the comments are so stupid and beneath you, there's this thing you can do called ""Not reading them."

@alphamikeomega5728 3 года назад

Probably to allow unrestricted submarine warfare, right?

@craigwheller 3 года назад

There's also a story that Yamamoto, while traveling around the US in the 20s/30s got lost in his car on some back road and came across two workers with a machine fixing potholes. He realizes what a mistake it would be to go to war with the US because he knows that in Japan, the same scene would have been 40 peasants with wooden shovels.

@exeggcutertimur6091 3 года назад

It helps a lot to have a 50 year head start on the industrial revolution. Road repair tools, much less car factories, take some time to build.

@piotrd.4850 Год назад

@@exeggcutertimur6091 and pressure of workforce deficit. USA had everything, except workforce (compared to demand), Europe and Japan had people.....

@garysimpson3900 3 года назад

Staggering the industrial might that was America in the 20th century. My father served in the British Pacific Fleet in 1945. He always talked about the size of the US navy fleets he saw: not only warships but "fleet trains" of supply ships.

@1969Risky 3 года назад

My grandfather was on the HMS Implacable with the BPF & he said the same thing.

@TheSuperhoden 3 года назад

My grandfather was the dumbass that was standing next to a naval gun when it fired

@stevekaczynski3793 3 года назад

SPOILER At the time of the Bulge in late 1944, a German artilleryman experienced heavy US bombardment and reflected that "this is how a rich man makes war". His guns were rationed to using a small number of shells per day - I think it was six per gun but I am not sure.

@jpjpjp453 3 года назад

Look up USN Service Squadrons for a real eye opener. For sheer logistical support, it was beyond anyone's pre-war imagination. From wiki..."On 8 October 1944 Commodore Worrall R. Carter's flagship Prairie, the merchant ammunition ship Plymouth Victory and Cascade sailed for Ulithi. Markab initially remained at Eniwetok, leaving for Ulithi on 18 October 1944 and arriving on 22 October. " "Within a month of the occupation of Ulithi, a whole floating base was in operation. Six thousand ship fitters, artificers, welders, carpenters, and electricians arrived aboard repair ships, destroyer tenders, and floating dry docks. USS Ajax had an air-conditioned optical shop and a metal fabrication shop with a supply of base metals from which she could make any alloy to form any part needed. USS Abatan, which looked like a big tanker, distilled fresh water and baked bread and pies. The ice cream barge made 500 gallons a shift. The dry docks towed to Ulithi were large enough to lift dry a 45,000-ton battleship. Fleet oilers sortied to and from Ulithi to meet the task forces at sea, refueling the warships a short distance from their combat operational areas. The result was something never seen before: a vast floating service station enabling the entire Pacific fleet to operate indefinitely at unprecedented distances from its mainland bases. Service Squadron 10's conversion of the lagoon at Ulithi to a major naval resupply and staging area was one of the most remarkable feats of the war."

@1969Risky 3 года назад

@@jpjpjp453 It's a real eye opener regarding logistics.

@chasehicks7465 2 года назад

The only 139 automobiles made after war was declared truly puts the war economy in focus. Amazing video sir.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Thank you!

@ZER0ZER0SE7EN Год назад

Mass production has to be done at full speed or it's inefficient. Those 139 automobiles most likely went to Federal and military officials.

@mshotz1 3 года назад

IN 1979, I was in the US Army, Stationed in Germany. We would be issued 050" cal. Ammo for range fire that was made in 1944.

@markcantemail8018 3 года назад

mshotz1 This past week I was going thru an odd lot of Ammo that i purchased for $5 in 2008 . 30-06 Tracer , incendiary , 3 types of Blanks and others from somebody's collection . I also cleaned up some weird ones with a Head stamp with an 8 . Further cleaning revealed a faint 1 next to the 8 . The way the primer was installed staked and sealed was Strange . Strange because i had never owned 1918 made ammo before . If things go Mad max they might be usable ? I enjoyed your 1979 memory .

@thurin84 3 года назад

they were still award ww2 produced purple hearts DURING DESERT STORM!!!!

@byronliu680 3 года назад

@@thurin84 to be fair many of those were produced because the US expected to invade the japanese mainland

@thurin84 3 года назад

@@byronliu680 yes

@shockwave6213 3 года назад

@@markcantemail8018 It would probably still fire, but it would likely be a hang fire. Best to keep it as a curiosity though.

@Erik-ko6lh 3 года назад

My Grandfather was 25 at the time of Pearl Harbor. He owned a small garage/gas station and worked part time as a diesel mechanic for International Harvester. IH designated him as critical labor and he spent the war at the end of a truck assembly line. His job was to make sure the newly assembled trucks actually ran.

@amadeusamwater 3 года назад

He had the most important job in the place...

@TheSuperhoden 3 года назад

Running trucks, usain bolt got nothing on them

@pauleohl 3 года назад

@@oddballsok Considering the alternatives, it was paradise.

@netherwolf3012 3 года назад

May have sucked but it was still important none the less.

@tonyk2860 3 года назад

@ODDBALL FUK what's your problem dick!

@Otter-Destruction 3 года назад

As Sun Tzu says "Don't want none, don't start none"

@jonathanbrown7250 3 года назад

Ahh, that Sun Tzu hoomespun wistom

@SamAronow 3 года назад

My grandfather worked as an electrician in wartime industry while his younger brother fought in Europe. His first job was taking care of horses for the milkmen in Chicago, but his work during the war eventually qualified him for his last job before retirement: installing the computers on the Space Shuttle.

@thegeneralist7527 3 года назад

That is a cool story. Going from shoveling horse manure to working on the space shuttle. That is the power of freedom and democracy.

@exeggcutertimur6091 3 года назад

That's also a great summary of the industrial revolution right there. From horse races to the space race.

@luciusvorenus9445 2 года назад

That is an awesome career arc! My Grandparents were born before manned flight and lived through the space race, passing away at the dawn of the Space Shuttle.

@batTorah 2 года назад

My dad was a riveter, he joined the Navy in 1944 at age 17. He was a Seabee and helped build Guam AFB while the Japanese were still on the island. It was the first time in his life that he ate 3 meals a day.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing that with us!

@bangscutter 3 года назад

US: "We produce ten times more cars than the rest of the world combined." Japan: "Let's poke this giant and see what happens." US: *Converts factories into making guns, artillery, tanks, and aircraft.* Axis: "Oh shit..."

@Psychonaut316 3 года назад

Great Britain: Oh no! Anyways...

@TheSuperhoden 3 года назад

Lols

@_ArsNova 3 года назад

90% of the comments are this exact same format of stupid "make fake meme historical quote from perspective of a nation or general about 'uh oh Axis in trouble'" is incredibly stale and unfunny.

@steve_jackson9933 3 года назад

I forget how many tanks we had by the end of the war, but we clearly outnumbered everything Germany had. Russia was another industrial beast as well. Once those two industrial giants woke from their slumber, it was game over.

@spikespa5208 3 года назад

@@_ArsNova Yeah yeah. We saw that comment in the other 2 threads. Get some new material.

@BrettCagwin49ers 3 года назад

Winston Churchill quoting Lloyd-George IIRC: "The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once you light a fire under it there is no limit to the power it can generate."

@christopherroa9781 3 года назад

Simple thing but I LOVE moments where Indy talks to the other people on set and they respond off screen. It feels so natural and your guys chemistry reminds me of mythbusters esque camaraderie

@exeggcutertimur6091 3 года назад

They also go to great lengths to dispel any myths they come across, like "going around Maginot".

@TheEvertw 3 года назад

I never realized how enormous the industrial capacity of the USA was compared to the world at that time. Thanks!

@otakunthevegan4206 3 года назад

"The average Ford car had fifteen thousand parts The B-24 Liberator had 1 Million five hundred and fifty thousand parts. 1 came off the line at Willow Run every 63 minutes"- From Ken Burns: The War

@thomaslanguell7257 3 года назад

Roosevelt: "What do you need?" Stimson: "Everything. A lot of it!"

@ernestojordanpena2827 3 года назад

Roosevelt: "you will get double that"

@nickdanger3802 3 года назад

As I understand it Stalin wanted almost everything the USA was able to produce and a second front in France and he wanted both yesterday.

@exeggcutertimur6091 3 года назад

Maybe had he not spent the previous decade killing millions of his own people he'd have more soldiers and resources, eh?

@bgdancer100 Месяц назад

Roosevelt: "Ask and ye shall receive."

@floydlooney6837 3 года назад

4.8 million cars produced during a Depression year. Even during the Depression the US economy was stronger than we think.

@Femerenden 3 года назад

I hope we hear about Liberty ships at some point as well. Those ships and the people who crewed them were what really changed the war.

@blueboats7530 3 года назад

And building massive new shipyards in a just few months to produce those Liberty ships

@jonathanbrown7250 3 года назад

Good idea. I know you're in Europe, but might a visit be in order? There are two functioning liberty ships left. One is the Jeremiah O'brien in SF. The other is John W. Brown in Baltimore. Baltimore harbor's a fun time. There are a number of historical ships and stuff to see around the harbor.

@umjackd 3 года назад

If you hop on Nebula, Real Engineering has a great series on the logistics of D-Day, including Liberty ships, Mulberry Harbours, everything. Fascinating stuff.

@schoolssection 3 года назад

No - everyone played a part.

@stevejdickey 2 года назад

And the corn field ship yards!

@gordybing1727 3 года назад

Hi All, In the 1880's or so, in northern Minnesota they had mined for iron, leaving giant spoil piles. During WW2, with newer technologies, they mined the spoil piles as it was faster then mining new. Thanks, take care.

@HaloFTW55 3 года назад

You too, and thanks for the cool trivia.

@NormAppleton 3 года назад

The Tennessee River Authority. It spent billions of early 40's money to centrifuge uranium. But, it also built the electrical infrastructure of the south. FDR did that. Mitch McConnell never will.

@haeuptlingaberja4927 3 года назад

My favorite anecdote about the role of America's industrial might is the story of a German tank commander who is absolutely dumbfounded by the discovery of a chocolate birthday cake sent from home and found, still fresh, in a Sherman tank. "We cannot possibly win against this," he is reported to have said.

@Ok.ok. Год назад

If I recall it wasn’t just some rank commander but the desert fox Rommel himself who said that.

@TheGM-20XX 3 года назад

"Lol America will never be able to use their car Factories to make weapons" - Mussolini, paraphrased.

@thurin84 3 года назад

(colorized)

@maximilianolimamoreira5002 3 года назад

"what about we use them anyway?"

@Conn30Mtenor 3 года назад

funny, because a Detroit industrial architect designed all of Russia's tractor factories which then churned out tanks. If he actually said this, then that would make that one of the most stupid comments ever uttered by an Axis leader.

@Duke_of_Lorraine 3 года назад

So you're saying that you're NOT watching a Pearl Harbor movie for the love triangle ?

@minderbart1 3 года назад

best part of the movie

@unbindingfloyd 3 года назад

lol

@principalityofbelka6310 3 года назад

Tora Tora Tora solely focuses on the political events, planning of the attack, and the events of the attack. I heard that one of the consultant of the movie is Minoru Genda himself.

@Erik-ko6lh 3 года назад

I recommend Monty Pythons reenactment over the love triangle movie.

@davidblair9877 3 года назад

Why let a little history ruin a good love triangle?

@JustSomeCanuck 3 года назад

Talking about the industrial workers in the USA would make for a great series of On The Homefront episodes. Just saying.

@SirSaladhead 3 года назад

Small nitpick: At 9:10, those are just M4 Shermans. "Grant" was the british nickname for the M3 Medium Tank (also known as Lee)

@Kiev_The_Great 3 года назад

They were subtly different. The Grant had a different turret and removed the radio (and the dedicated operator) from inside the hull and instead gave it to the commander in the turret.

@ballagh 3 года назад

In the world of small nitpicks, the Grant has a different turret to the Lee, with an added bustle rack for a radio, and one less crewman.

@ballagh 3 года назад

@@Kiev_The_Great oops, you beat me to it

@ninus17 3 года назад

@@Kiev_The_Great yes. but the lee/grant was designated m3. indy calls them m4 grant shermans. no such tank ever had that name. it was just M4 sherman or to the brits general sherman

@Kiev_The_Great 3 года назад

@@ninus17 100% the Grant was M3 and not M4. I was just pointing out that the Grant and Lee were distinct variants rather than 'just' a nickname when in British service.

@torchris1 3 года назад

When I was in university I did a lot of research on the production of four engined bombers in the US and the story and the numbers are just staggering. I recall the US aircraft manufacturing industry went from 36,000 employees in 1938 to 2.5 million by 1943! You should definitely do a story on the Ford Willow Run B-24 bomber plant. It was a real microcosm of the things that went both right and wrong with this titanic mobilization.

@wietse1113 3 года назад

That's absolutely insane. Producing more than Germany, Japan and Italy combined. How could you ever hope to win in that war? Those numbers (combined with the obvious manpower advantages of the allies) make it absolutely insane that they weren't trying to get peace in 1942...

@jackhoff3910 3 года назад

I doubt the Axis powers knew the extent of wartime production taking place in the USA.

@user-vh3fr3lb8w 11 месяцев назад

@@jackhoff3910mad men cant see that. Hitler and Mussolini never saw it coming

@GeneralSmitty91 3 года назад

Henry Ford II: This isn't the first time the Ford Motor Company has gone to war Mr. Shelby

@tyvernoverlord5363 3 года назад

The Ford produced equipment did always have a reputation for excellence

@Anglomachian 3 года назад

Thank goodness someone else recognizes the awesome of Tora Tora Tora!

@AndyM_323YYY 3 года назад

The story of Pearl Harbor without the supposed need for a love story injected into it. Who'd have guessed it could be done?

@Anglomachian 3 года назад

@@AndyM_323YYY Apparently not Micheal Bay.

@troy9477 3 года назад

Yes, it is s great movie. Some years ago, i was fortunate to find a DVD with THX sound at Costco, so i snatched it up. Just watched it again a few days ago, ironically. Great film, and factually accurate. We did not know it at the time. Of course, but the first shots of our war against Japan were fire by the USS Ward.

@Conn30Mtenor 3 года назад

Apart from the 1960's hairstyles and fashions, yeah. It's good.

@Anglomachian 3 года назад

@@Conn30Mtenor They were going through a phase.

@roymartin500 3 года назад

Yamamoto: Tojo made me do it! Tojo: The Emperor made me do it! Emperor: They told me I was a living God! They: So....we exaggerated a bit.

@thurin84 3 года назад

(stares in reproachful samurai)-[belly slitting intensifies]

@arclight7401 3 года назад

8:32 My jaw genuinely dropped when he said 139

@ThePRCommander 3 года назад

Same

@blueboats7530 3 года назад

Yeah, you won't find the rare 1943 Oldmobile in a classic car show . . . because . . .

@mommachupacabra 3 года назад

Stuart Kaminsky's Toby Peters mystery series takes place in the pre-war/wartime/post-war era of Los Angeles, and his characters spend a fair bit of time trying to get working vehicles, or maintain cars that are falling apart with bald tires.

@Altrantis 3 года назад

I was expecting him to follow up with "thousand"

@harrydarwin1874 3 года назад

Well good luck mr Yamamoto, he’s gonna need it

@Giovanni-mj9uj 3 года назад

Average hoi4 player

@_boils_8492 3 года назад

That turtleneck 🥵🥵🍑🍆

@principalityofbelka6310 3 года назад

I don't know. I fear a horrible fate awaits him somewhere in the Solomon islands.

@yourstruly4817 3 года назад

Pearl Harbor didn't work out, so he started selling us video games

@Duke_of_Lorraine 3 года назад

He knew the ods before even attacking Pearl Harbor. Probably cursing Tojo the entire time.

@principalityofbelka6310 3 года назад

The industrial capacity of the United States is mindblowing. The Liberty Class cargo ships, Fletcher Class destroyer, and the M4 Sherman are examples of American industrial superiority in the 2nd World War.

@willbxtn 3 года назад

@@joshuamarriott7034 Not the best tank one on one, but it wasn't one on one: more Shermans were built in 1942-45 than the total of all German tanks, including the captured Czechoslovak Panzer 38(t), produced both during the war and before the war started.

@generalfred9426 3 года назад

"didn’t fair well against the german panthers or tigers" Ironically enough the Sherman was reported to be 3.6 times more effective than the Panther.

@Bigwakka 3 года назад

Nice, I'm listening to this while making my deliveries to a place which built the B-29's.

@jasondouglas6755 3 года назад

I hope your not watching this while you drive their.

@danmarce 3 года назад

That wishlist. Other countries WISH to be able to WISH that.

@blueboats7530 3 года назад

Isoroku, allow us to introduce you to the P-38 . . . And ... another 36 P-38s And 10,000 more P-38s

@thurin84 3 года назад

and those are just the backup aircraft!

@zolafuckass8606 3 года назад

"No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory." -FDR Let's see if he'll be right.

@delraybrewer 3 года назад

I feel like we might do alright. I wanna see how it plays out.

@harrydarwin1874 3 года назад

I dunno, could go either way

@zolafuckass8606 3 года назад

@@harrydarwin1874 Oswald Mosely??? What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be organizing rallies in Dorchester?

@stc3145 3 года назад

«If the Japanese invaded now they would penetrate as far as Chicago before we could stop them» Some guy in a Pearl Harbor Movie

@zolafuckass8606 3 года назад

@@stc3145 "Do not tell me it can't be done."

@coremanEXE 3 года назад

man the ambient music is so comforting and genuinely doesn't come off as repetitive, even though I'm only just realizing it's the same beat every time. Great series, all!

@kevindoyle1884 3 года назад

Some videos are more shocking than others but those numbers alone were staggering, absolutely love these type of videos thanks

@taufiqutomo 3 года назад

Imagine 20, 30, 40, 50 years from now, this series will be a classic.

@t5ruxlee210 3 года назад

The pre WW2 crash rearmament program started out as a horrible mess. Companies like GMC were awarded "cost plus contacts" so they went on a "plan ahead" hiring spree for the skilled trades to be required in their yet unbuilt new factories. Meanwhile the contractors tasked with constructing these new plants could not find the skilled people they needed because they were all sitting around drawing pay and doing nothing at said companies. It all blew wide open when an obscure politician of dubious reputation decided to spend his summer away from Washington travelling the country and getting close up and personal with the real facts. His later revelations that year made his name a topic of household conversations. He was Harry Truman. His ongoing efforts later saw him chosen as FDR's running mate for VP and the rest is history.

@jedawgs 3 года назад

Maybe my favorite episode so far! Would love to see a minor deep dive into the Philadelphia Navy Yards and its amazing production throughout the war. As a south Philly resident, the yards still have a major impact on today's life!

@BigMeechEJ25 3 года назад

Glad to see Hotzendorf still hanging around after all this time. Good video as always Indy and team.

@HZAres 3 года назад

what america can do when it is united and focused instead of divided and off chasing conspiracy theories.

@lucaswatson1913 3 года назад

I think as we'll see, and Indy hinted at at the end of the video, it might not have been politically United over this as you think Also yes the US United over the war but can you imagine the public reaction to the government forcing companies to take contracts these days? Imagine Elon musk being told Tesla factories produce missiles now no arguing

@umjackd 3 года назад

@@lucaswatson1913 It's a different environment now for sure, and conflicts today are very different from what they were then. If the US ever needed a complete war economy again, the world in general would have to be in a pretty terrible place. Though that reminds me of the whole debacle about ventilators early in the pandemic in the US and how complicated it was to requisition affordable ventilators because of crisis profiteering.

@user-zy8cy6hn6o 3 года назад

@@umjackd to be fair that potential economic chaos is one of the goals of organizations like the EU. It was originally created as the ESCC to create an economic barrier to war by intertwining European economies to cause detriment to any nation seeking to fully mobilize against another European nation.

@eodyn7 3 года назад

RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA

@MrNicoJac 3 года назад

@@umjackd The US still has the laws that allow the (federal) government to declare an emergency and *force* companies to switch production towards whatever the government dictates. Trump and Co just weren't willing to admit the situation was dire enough to go that far. And so they didn't use that law. But it certainly would have been possible to have plenty of PPE and ventilators produced, if there had been the political force, leadership, and coordination. Funnily enough though, these days I still read about PPE shortages, lack of beds/availability, and obviously overworked personnel, but no longer about insufficient ventilators.... So perhaps the production shortage wasn't that bad after all, or maybe they just aren't as useful for keeping people as was originally thought?

@Conn30Mtenor 3 года назад

I recommend the Kursk video with Jonathan Parshall. He does an amazing job of explaining how tanks production is compared between the warring powers.

@Donald_Allan 3 года назад

Thank you to you and the team for all of your work ob the WW2 series. It's one of my favourite periods in history as I find it absolutely fascinating and although I already knew a lot about it through my own research, I feel your teams videos have really helped to increase and broaden my knowledge on the topic further.

@robertlight5227 3 года назад

"The destiny of World War Two was decided at Pearl Harbor." - Churchill.

@johnmichaelson9173 4 месяца назад

Really it was when Hitler declared war on the US forcing American entry into WWII.

@jeffgalus8454 3 года назад

Yeah Yamamoto may not have said it but it still a darn good line

@thurin84 3 года назад

id imagine something like if crossed his mind when the 20mm, and .50 cals stared impacting his betty.

@IrishTechnicalThinker 3 года назад

Germany: Our Production has increased. Italy: Our Production has increased. Japan: Our Production has increased. American: YES!!!

@penismightier9278 3 года назад

Americans: Wait... that's the best you can do? Dammit.

@JoeyOnly 3 года назад

I love everything you say and do. Thanks for another great episode.

@Goldenspiderducck 3 года назад

7:40 Hey, quick kudos to whoever is adding the little whooshing noise whenever an icon or portrait appears. It’s a nice subtle production touch that helps give the video momentum and energy! Of course, now I can’t stop hearing it. Little whooshes, wherever I go....

@gianniverschueren870 3 года назад

Clean tie with some interesting patterning, but I'm not sure it works with this choice of tie and waistcoat. Still, a solid 3/5

@grandadmiralzaarin4962 3 года назад

Japan, "I'm going to do what's called a suicide move..."

@TheArbiter1721 3 года назад

I mean they were really good at that

@paulconrad6220 3 года назад

Like kidnapping the emperor and going head to head with Thrawn?

@grandadmiralzaarin4962 3 года назад

@@paulconrad6220 and I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for that meddling Thrawn and his Marek Steele!

@grandadmiralzaarin4962 3 года назад

@@paulconrad6220 and in fairness, Zaarin very nearly succeeded and almost killed Vader, Thrawn and Palpatine on multiple occasions during his campaign. That Thrawn was busy dealing with Zaarin and his remnant forces is why the Chiss was not at Endor and also why the Empire never got to mass produce the TIE Avenger and Defender, so posthumously, Zaarin contributed directly to the deaths of both Sith Lords due to the weaker TIEs being at Endor instead of the advanced models Zaarin developed.

@Darwinek 3 года назад

@@TheArbiter1721 They are still "good" in that according to suicide statistics.

@markroberts9577 2 года назад

I am enjoying every single episode in each series that I am watching. Lot of thought and time and education I thoroughly enjoy watching

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Thank you, Mark!

@toddmoss1689 3 года назад

Thanks for another great installment! Brilliant foresight, planning, and also architectural design by Albert Kahn created two American war production juggernauts in Metro Detroit before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Detroit Tank Arsenal plant in Warren would ultimately outproduce the entire German production and Willow Run in Ypsilanti would eventually roll out B-24 bombers at a rate of one per hour.

@Bochi42 3 года назад

God damn this series is very well done. Once society finally gets around to having awards for youtube channels and programs like we have for movies and the like I'm seeing a lot coming for these folks. It'll take a while for this medium to be recognized but the whole crew are going to get lifetime Achievement Awards. Their stuff is really that good.

@goodsous 3 года назад

The tanks at 9:06 are M3 Grant or M3 Lee tanks, officially designated as "Medium Tank, M3". The tanks at 9:09 are M4 Sherman tanks, officially "Medium Tank M4".

@amerigo88 3 года назад

Nonsense. I just bought a M4 Grant-Sherman model on eBay for $500. Seller said it was “incredibly rare.” I will let it go for $1500. I know what I’ve got. No low balls.

@danielgreen3715 3 года назад

Thankyou all and Indy for a really interesting show i have been wanting to ask you about America and the Axis food wars ie Rations and how they were developed etc because I had heard that the story behind all this is actually quite interesting and as its an essential part of any war effort the Rations had a direct impact upon combat and National effectiveness! Thankyou for such a Great concept this keeps me going week by week during our COVID troubles!DG

@josedavidgarcesceballos7 3 года назад

This was very interesting. After seeing this, and if you do not mind, I highly suggest going over Chester Bowles and his office in the war time. That would be the civil side of this episode. Cheers.

@minderbart1 3 года назад

american wartime production was absolutely insane.

@alvinhadiyanto7326 2 года назад

Still can't beat USSR in tank production

@markoliver314 2 года назад

@@alvinhadiyanto7326 yea but they weren’t just making tanks. They were building everything.

@Anthony-jo7up 2 года назад

@@alvinhadiyanto7326 The USA significantly outproduced the USSR in tank production every single year of the war except for 1945, where they produced only 12k to the USSR's 20k as the USA ceased tank production earlier. Furthermore, by the end of the war, 80% of the Red Army's vehicles were made in America. Additionally, the USA had produced more planes during the war than the rest of the Allies combined, had produced multiple times more ships than the entire world combined, and had a GDP larger than the entire world combined. Furthermore, the American material produced was of exceptionally high quality, unlike the infamously shoddily-manufactured material of the USSR.

@RUSIA_MISKIN_GA_GUNA 8 месяцев назад

@@alvinhadiyanto7326vatnik indon

@phantomkelvink4225 27 дней назад

@@Anthony-jo7upI know I am late but…Good job! You take it out of my mouth!

@bobtaylor170 3 года назад

My future mother had a "Rosie" job, two, actually. She worked with spun glass to make fiberglass insulation for our navy; before that, she'd worked on the factory's other side, where they manufactured jockstraps for the military. If there had been a mistake, and the two sides of the factory had gotten mixed up, there might not have been a baby boom.

@danielkokal8819 2 года назад

fiberglass jockstraps. that would have lost the war for us, what with Patton always scratching himself.

@Drrolfski 3 года назад

On this topic, I can recommend the series War Factories that can be seen on the Discovery Channel. In 2 seasons it gives quite a good insight on why the Axis powers basically already lost the war before it really started. Factors like having different ideas about military planning, mass production and free-market economy played an equally key role besides just raw production capacity.

@brokenbridge6316 3 года назад

This was a fantastic video. And I've seen Tora, Tora, Tora. It's a fine movie. Great job.

@torgeirbrandsnes1916 2 года назад

Great vlog as always! On the 8th dec. 1941 the president of Boeing calls one of his plant managers and tell him «Just start ordering what ever you need to make all the aircraft we produce!»

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Thanks for watching, Torgeir!

@shawnr771 3 года назад

I went to the George H.W. Bush Museum of the Pacific War a few years ago. One information panel listed all the stuff built by American factories and shipyards in WW2. Artillery Pieces (larger than 37mm) 257,000 Tanks and Self propeled guns 88,000 Machine guns 2.6 million Ammunition 41 Billion rounds. Military Trucks 2.3 million Aircraft Fighter 99,950. Bombers 97,830 Transport 23,929 Aircraft Carriers 18 Essex Class(CV) 7 Independence Class(CVL). Escort Carriers(CVE) 119 Battleships 8 Cruisers 48 Destroyers 349 Submarines 422 Amphibious Craft (all types) 80,000 Merchant tonnage 33,993,230 In addition in just a few short years the US produced all the stuff that goes with a military. From kitchens, office furniture, uniforms and basic equipment, web gear, ropes, food. The US not only supplied gear for it's own military but that of numerous other nations.

@tyvernoverlord5363 3 года назад

Not to mention that the U.S. Pacific Fleet would grow to be bigger than all the navies of the major fighting powers combined!

@JD-kl8hz 3 года назад

@@tyvernoverlord5363 by 1944-45 the US Navy was around 75% of the world's naval tonnage. Pretty crazy!

@tyvernoverlord5363 3 года назад

@@JD-kl8hz If we had gone to war with the USSR just right after WWII and before the spies gave the soviets the blueprints for the bomb, the navy could’ve crushed the Red Navy on a whole new level of roflstomp

@jasonharryphotog 3 года назад

Thanks for the video Quite frightening the switch and growth into full war mode, future foes will not make that mistake again they will want a clear edge to allow their efforts to create a strong grip, the future is looking quite grim in that regard like they haven't paid attention to the past, it's much better to live in peace.

@Daniiren 3 года назад

Between 1942 and 1945 the Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded an average of 2 million industrial casualties per year. The total combat casualties over this period was less than 1 million. OSU has a bunch of material on this that is definitely worth looking at.

@CivilWarWeekByWeek 3 года назад

You know after all this time you would think Uncle Sam would get an alarm clock.

@interestingengineering291 3 года назад

Great one there 😉

@jasondouglas6755 3 года назад

🤣🤣🤣

@thurin84 3 года назад

i know, right? i guess we needz our beauty slepp.

@gordonbrandt9739 3 года назад

Fascinating data. Would you consider a similar episode on USSR response if that's possible.

@roadtrip2943 3 года назад

My mom worked for a oneman shop in the bronx making shaving kits for the service lads. She did a productive shift days and half shift on the books evenings , learnt some accounting moves. Pop was at sea and my older brother a tyke. With total beef shortages our chef uncle sent some cuts our way .you lived with family to get by during the war years shortages

@chriswharton 2 года назад

Congratulations. Great stuff. So well done.

@WorldWarTwo 2 года назад

Thanks Chris, we appreciate the kind words

@danielnavarro537 3 года назад

American Bronze British Brains Russian Blood Won the war. When Stalin talked about American industry, he realize they're output in guns, ammunition, ships, planes, bombs, tanks, artillery, and many resources. America is truly a might in industry and resources.

@eodyn7 3 года назад

It's American Brawn not Bronze. lol

@BoliceOccifer 4 месяца назад

bro is cooking up that 570bc military @@eodyn7

@brockbayley5279 3 года назад

love the Australian flag in the background. Not often our contribution is acknowledged. I really hope you guys don't fall into the normal trap of covering the Pacific war though. Usually, it's framed as an America vs Japan war over American and Japanese islands when many of the campaigns fought in 1942-43 were fought to secure/isolate Australia. Please cover how Australia fed Allied armies in the Pacific and Fremantle Submarine Base

@TLTeo 3 года назад

Considering they are covering the war in China in detail, which is overlook at least just as much, I'm sure they will do Australia justice.

@psychic_beth 3 года назад

also if they'd cover the Battle of Brisbane that'd be nice

@JuanHerrera-wx7jc Год назад

True, there was a lot more going on down there than what is often discussed. Don’t worry, some of us Americans know!

@alanfenick1103 3 года назад

Great explanation with facts and figures!

@jeffeck1701 3 года назад

Thank you Indy(sp?)! I learned something new today about my own country. I never learned in school about how all the stuff was made, just not in the curriculum....

@HarrisonGoldfarb 3 года назад

Hi! Would it be possible for some WWII merchandise soon? Also, I would love to see a return of Snake and Angel!

@greenkoopa 3 года назад

You have to take the spoils from the defeated enemy

@principalityofbelka6310 3 года назад

I thought they're still stuck in a trench line somewhere in the Western Front.

@rick7424 3 года назад

You get a Sturmgewehr and you get a Stumgewehr... EVERYBODY GETS A STURMGEWEHR!

@WorldWarTwo 3 года назад

@@principalityofbelka6310 They are...

@thurin84 3 года назад

@@WorldWarTwo be sure to award them spanges for being retreads.

@AbrahamLincoln4 3 года назад

surprising how a literal war immediately ended the Great Depression in the USA.

@brianb.5661 3 года назад

This is a fantastic history lesson. Thank you!

@keiranallcott1515 3 года назад

In regards to the famous quote in toro toro toro , there’s another famous quote by another Japanese admiral that pretty much summed up pearl harbour just as well , the book , countdown to pearl harbour. “We have won a great victory and we have lost the war “

@Jacob-df5hr 2 года назад

"How much of everything is needed to defeat everyone?" The USA ladies and gentlemen, where you can just sit down at the restaurant and place an order for victory

@jasonpade4949 3 года назад

I can't wait to see the clips of Indy saying "IMP"

@NeoIvan17 3 года назад

Thank you for the figures and general information. Are there plans to bring more war-economic videos for say Britain and the USSR and the Axis powers as a whole or perhaps the big three (Germany, Italy and Japan) during the war? I hope so as these are fascinating to learn. Thank you again!

@robertshepherd8543 5 месяцев назад

One of your best.

@MeatGuyJ 3 года назад

Detroiters: "HA HA, ARSENAL GOES BRRRT"

@jerryrgzz1571 3 года назад

Hope we can have a similar ep with the evolving indusrtry for Germany and USSR.

@DMsthouder 2 года назад

extremely interesting. thank you!

@briankorbelik2873 Год назад

My parents met at a north American sub-assembly plant in Pasadena CA. They made parts for the B-25 bombers and the P-51 Mustang fighters.

@WorldWarTwo Год назад

Thanks for sharing, Brian!

@philipreeves9311 3 года назад

I noted something interesting while reading Grant's autobiography that I think was used in the expansion of the U.S army in WW2. He believed that in a future war the army should use its trained professionals officers and soldiers as the core of units. He stated he believed that the southern armies benefited from officers and soldiers going back to their home states allowing the regiments they raised to be more effective. I recalled while reading Omar Bradley's auto biography that something like this was done. He did not site Grant's idea but I feel that Grant's idea was used to raise units quickly in the Untied states. What do you guys think?

@nobodyherepal3292 3 года назад

I disagree a little bit. Historically, armies of professional officers and soldiers are great at short, decisive wars, as there training and experience gives them a great advantage vs a lesser or poorly trained force. But, historically, Long wars are won because one side had more of its own people to grind into dust in an attritional war. And they don’t have to be very well trained or motivated. They just need to be numerically more then the other guys army and equipt with things that can be replaced just as easily. The Union army, Soviet Red army, the ww2 US army, and the WW1 the entente are good examples.

@naoyanaraharjo4693 3 года назад

@@nobodyherepal3292 the Germans experienced this problem. Their real elite troops died in the early days of Barbarossa as theyre the spearhead taking most of the fighting. Making attacks even harder than before due to worse replacement on the frontlines

@QuizmasterLaw 3 года назад

Mao Zedong was asked what he thought about the influence of the French Revolution on history: His answer? "It is too soon to tell."

@alekzander2010 3 года назад

Mao Zedong's right hand man, Zhou Enlai, is actually the one who said it. However, it apparently was a translation error on his part too.

@Anthus. 3 года назад

Mao Ze-"dong" part of his name is "dong". Lol Idk why, but I think that is hilarious.

@QuizmasterLaw 3 года назад

@@Anthus. yep lots of dongs in Chinese. Wangs too!

@ThePRCommander 3 года назад

Go to the university of Yale in the US. Mao was a student there, before he went back to China and made his name. Guess what he studied...”thought reorientation”. Yamamoto also had a link to the very same university. Search and you shall find.