Re-Evaluating Lend-Lease

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by talleyrand:

The US emerged on top for a single reason.
It was the only world power whose infrastructure, production facilities, and capital were not destroyed by the war. US native soil was shelled by a single submarine and subjected too two attempted forest fire bombs. Compare this to the damage inflicted on every other industrial nation on the planet, and those countries loss of capital and life compared to relative US losses.

[ 30 October 2001: Message edited by: talleyrand ]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

exactly!!!!

 

i agree withyou about americas industrail capability and thats WHY america became a superpower because tha war and things like lend-lease help america discover this and the fact that the rest of the worlds previous major powers lay in ruins probably helped but not much, it was inevitable. I said earlier one of britains biggest contributions to the winning of the war was down to geography and here it is again ONE of the thing that helped america to emerge al mighty after the war was, geography.

one another note, or rather back to a previous one here is just a example of americas industrail power over somewhere like britain; aircraft carriers(and other naval ship) in america when geared up they could produce say a aircraft carrier in under a year but in britain it could take upto 2 years just shows doesnt it.

 

Tally, I have to disag4ree on a bit about lend lease.

Ture it was called something vastly different--cahs and carry--bag and stowe, as this was before the outbreak of major hostilities. Lend lease was the "official" name to our war aid to them.

"We" had been sending them aid for years-and at US tax payers expense. This aid was in the form or raw materials--cars--medicines etc.

If I can find my grandfathers log books--I will gladly tell you what he entered into them. This will be dates ov convoy--routs taken-names of items on board his ship including number of bushels of wheat-corn-rice-to tons of grain per storage container-to barrels of fuel oil per container.

Give me time on this as these books are somewhere at my brothers home in Houston. I will be going there in February and will stop by and ask to borrow the books.

Govts never tell a citizen exactly what goes on and when and certainly not all the time. This goes on in the case of pre-war "lend lease" too