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maxerickson on Aug 22, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Packard Merlin: How Detroit Mass-Produced Britain’...

This article doesn't make citations but seems credible:

http://gasolinefuels.blogspot.com/2011/06/world-war-ii-and-o...

It sounds like there is a volume story there, with the US supply situation being much better.

Declanomous on Aug 22, 2018 [–]

The US won WWII through superior logistics as much as anything else. The Japanese strike at Pearl Harbor was in recognition of the fact that they would lose any prolonged war with the US because of the manufacturing capacity that we possessed.

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