(12-11-2014 10:07 AM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  

(12-11-2014 09:10 AM)runamuck Wrote:  

(10-11-2014 06:21 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  I think the importance of the size of the material advantage is overplayed a bit by many historians.

basically the war was decided in favor of the allies once the u.s. was in. we had vast amounts of available men and resources and an ocean on each end for protection. it was just a matter of gearing up and formulating the best strategy. from what I have read, pretty soon after we entered the war the deal making began for who gets what afterward. it was only a matter of time before the japanese ran out of resources and the germans ran out of manpower.

The interesting thing is that both Germany and Japan, despite the constant bombing of their manufacturing centers, still were making considerable amounts of war equipment right up to their respective surrenders. Japan had nearly 9000 warplanes dispersed throughout Northern Honshu, Korea and Manchuria in preparation for Operations Olympic and Coronet. Its the lack of TRAINED manpower to operate that equipment and a lack of fuel that were the nails in their respective coffins.

maybe so but I once new a guy who was a kid in japan during the war. he said they were out of everything. the kids were sent out during school to scrounge for scrap metal and such things as pine cones which they could eat and also use for fuel.