Actually they turned the tide in a bit under a year. The attack on Pearl, 7 Dec 1941 followed by the loss of Wake, Guam and the Philippines in early 42, that was followed by Midway, Jun 42, Guadalcanal, Aug 42 and the invaision of North Africa in Nov of 42. So the tide turned in less than a year, we went from fighting a defensive war to one of attack! What is really amazing is that the US military was pretty samll on that Sunday morning in Dec while the reat of the world was at war. A lot of the equipment was obsolete or substandard compared to what the men using it were to face. In spite of all of this our factories, men and women both in uniform and in the work force built enough forces and equipment to do all of this in less than a year.
In 1939 the US Army (including the US Army Air Corp) wan't 200,000 strong, the Navy was less than 185,000 and the Marine Corp was about 20,000.
We made a total of 295,000 aircraft of all types, 86,000 tanks, 193,000 artillery guns and 2 million trucks. And to think that only about 60% of the country's production was dedicated to the war effort.
IN all a fantastic effort by most of the American people.
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