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Aircraft manufacturing went from a distant 41st place among American industries to first place in less than five years. [1] [2] [3] In 1939, total aircraft production for the US military was less than 3,000 planes. By the end of the war, America produced 300,000 planes. No war was more industrialized than World War II.
Winning Your Wings is a 1942 Allied propaganda film of World War II produced by Warner Bros. Studios for the US Army Air Forces, starring James Stewart. It was aimed at young men who were thinking about joining the Air Force. Members of the production crew would later form the core of the First Motion Picture Unit.
Complete Book of World War II Combat Aircraft (1988) 414pp; Angelucci, Enzo. The Rand McNally Encyclopedia Of Military Aircraft, 1914-1980 (1988) 546pp; includes production data; Harrison, Mark, ed. The economics of World War II: six great powers in international comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2000) Overy, Richard (2016).
Before joining World War II US government spending in 1941 represented 30% of GDP, or about $408 billion. In 1944 at the peak of World War II, government spending had risen to over $1.6 trillion about 79% of the GDP. During this three-year period the total GDP represented by government spending rose 294%.
Footage from deep in the Pacific Ocean has given the first detailed look at three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in the pivotal Battle of Midway and could help solve mysteries about the ...
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). A fast and high-flying bomber, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater of Operations and dropped more bombs than any other aircraft during World War II.
The Saga of the Franklin (1945) is a 16-mm Kodachrome color documentary film produced about the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, nicknamed "Big Ben", one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II. The aircraft carrier was hit by a Japanese dive bomber on March 19, 1945.
The NAF ended aircraft production with the end of World War II in 1945. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] : 118–122, 127–139, 147–148, 237–238, 260–263, 273–284, 336–337 Peak factory employment of 13,400 workers was achieved in June 1943, during WWII.