Production feats: American manufacturing did wonders during WWII

Thanks Clint. I did have the first one but not the second .

 

Hey Clint? Would you know of any sources that would list the Munitions and Armaments factories during the War? What was produced and when?

 

Wowsers, not off the top of my head. Seems like I have seen a list of them somewhere, but I'll be danged if I can recall where. Old-timers must be setting in more and more often! I check around in my old files and stuff and see if I can find something like that.

 

Another weird one; Who would have thought that egg overproduction would be a major problem in the US during the war years, at least it was in 1944! In May alone America’s patriotic hens set a new production record of 6,704,000,000 eggs.

See:

E Is for Egg - TIME

 

LOL Same here. I thought I remembered you posting something about it. But I could be wrong LOL. And thanks for the Egg info LOL!!!!

 

Hm. A friend of mine who was reading a memoir of a Japanese commander told me that he read this. The units involved were not really soldiers but civil engineering units and mobalized locals who were thrown at the Americans when nothing nothing else was left.

 

Thought you guys might get a kick out of too many eggs in 1944, and them being used as livestock feed. I did find a link to a site which used to have a map of the USA, and a person could click on the state and get a complete run-down of what was produced in that state for the war effort. The only two which were not mentioned were Oak Ridge in TN., and Hanover in WA.. That might have been because those remained "secret" of a sort when the interactive map was established.

Sadly, I found the link to that map but it is long dead I guess. It was at the "heritageamerica" site, but the one for the state by state war production part was a goner. It had the name of the plants, what was produced, and the quantity in total. It was quite impressive, even states you wouldn't think did much (like MT) had listings for the tons of copper, coal, tin, nickel, gold, and timber produced as well as the number of cattle and tons of grains.

But alas, it is gone. How frustrating was the "cooler" BTW? (giggle-giggle)

 

Thats too bad. It would have been great to take a look at the map .

 

I remember reading that fresh eggs were rare in Germany and consumed only haphazardly. German airmen in combat were given one egg a day as a "luxury...."

 

I have always been interested in the Logistrical side of the war and just fascinated with what the US could, can and did produce in such mass quantities.

 

LOL Yeas they do. I guess they would be great for some. But I think 5 DVDs of them would be too much for me LOL.