From: Everette (194cbteng@bellsouth.net)
Date: Fri Jan 06 2006 - 06:58:32 PST
my .02 this was a necesssary staged performance to get US public involved
and prepared to support the war effort
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick v100" <rickv100@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Roosevelt commits to biggest arms buildup in U.S. history
> Everette,
>
> The US production, especially aircraft, was already on
> a quasi-war footing due to orders from the English and
> the Allies starting in 1940. All Roosevelt did was
> push the throttle from half to full open.
>
> Rick
>
>
>
> --- Everette <194cbteng@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> January 6
>>
>> 1942 Roosevelt commits to biggest arms buildup in
>> U.S. history
>>
>> On this day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
>> announces to Congress that he
>> is authorizing the largest armaments production in
>> the history of the United
>> States.
>> Committed to war in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor,
>> the U.S. had to reassess
>> its military preparedness, especially in light of
>> the fact that its Pacific
>> fleet was decimated by the Japanese air raid. Among
>> those pressing President
>> Roosevelt to double U.S. armaments and industrial
>> production were Lord
>> William Beaverbrook, the British minister of
>> aircraft production, and
>> members of the British Ministry of Supplies, who
>> were meeting with their
>> American counterparts at the Mayflower Hotel in
>> Washington. Beaverbrook, a
>> newspaper publisher in civilian life, employed
>> production techniques he
>> learned in publishing to cut through red tape,
>> improve efficiency, and boost
>> British aircraft production to manufacturing 500
>> fighters a month, and he
>> felt the U.S. could similarly beef up armament
>> production.
>> Spurred on by Lord Beaverbrook and Prime Minister
>> Churchill, Roosevelt
>> agreed to the arms buildup. He announced to Congress
>> that the first year of
>> the supercharged production schedule would result in
>> 45,000 aircraft, 45,000
>> tanks, 20,000 antiaircraft guns, and 8 million tons
>> in new ships.
>> Congressmen were stunned at the proposal, but
>> Roosevelt was undeterred:
>> "These figures and similar figures for a multitude
>> of other implements of
>> war will give the Japanese and Nazis a little idea
>> of just what they
>> accomplished."
>>
>> Everette
>>
>>
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