SH Archive World War II: Military Production Facts

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Username: jd755
Date: 2019-10-07 19:40:58
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Liberty ships. Sizeable but not much in them.
Gallery here; Meet the SS Jeremiah O’Brien, the last remaining Liberty ship to have taken part in D-Day

Just for comparison Austin & Pickersgill knocked out an SD14 general cargo ship of in 14,000 tons in five months October '67-Feb '68.
Nicola the first SD14 This set celebrates the 'Nicola', the first in a long line of standard ships designed by the Sunderland shipyard of Austin & Pickersgill Ltd. The images document her construction from October 1967 through to her completion in February 1968.

 

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Username: Banta
Date: 2019-10-08 02:11:57
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The record was set by SS Robert E. Peary, which was launched 4 days and 151⁄2 hours after the keel was laid, although this publicity stunt was not repeated

Publicity stunts rarely have to! Or at least, probably shouldn't.

Militaries have an obvious motive to overstate their capacity. That's enough for me to doubt many "official" wartime statistics.

 

[Unclepeanutbutter]

It would serve the mind to know that what they said they produced is not accurate.
If experience has taught anything, it is that satisfying the masses is critical to control.
Numbers are always inflated. War bonds have to be sold. The amount of labor involved in those numbers are not possible while how many "young men" went off to war. In our industrial capacity today, we would have an impossible task of providing small arms ammunition alone for our army for four years. Stockpiles were a thing and they were added to those numbers for sure.
Just out of curious, have you compiled the number of "tanks or ships" that were around before the war? You have the numbers during, and then how many were destroyed? Do those numbers get even close, considering Lend Lease won't matter because it's all Production.
Also notable, it is strange that all these surplussed planes/and equipment don't litter more scrap yards/back yards. You do see late production chassis of shermans used in logging ops as yarders.
I guess many will say that Joe Biden organized the withdraw from europe as everything seemed to stay there. What happened to all that cast iron?? And why wouldn't you see all these really powerful engines powering all sorts of things after the war?? Merlin Engines are a perfect example. They seem to be so rare Jay Leno has one. Why weren't all those radials, inlines, and rotaries put to use everywhere in civilian uses.
They could power mills, factory machinery, trains, cars, trucks. Oddly absent.
I do not believe the numbers we are told are real. Just as many of the battles never too place.
Have no fear though, we spent all your money and labor for your own security and well being.

 

[Robbyj73]

It seems to me that if WW2 was something more than staged managed and controlled conflicts with the outcomes already decided beforehand then you would have seen far more advanced weaponry.....................DEW's which were called fasces in older times. Vehicles and aircraft that ran on free atmospheric energy, rail guns, kinetic weapons, weather warfare, jet aircraft, earthquake causing devices. I think these weapons were already available in the 30's and 40's and being used on a small scale. All the unusual fires and earthquakes of the previous decades can most likely be attributed to those devices. Especially on the losing side - they would have nothing to lose by using these weapons unless the war was just theatre, which seems probable at this point.