Arming the nation for war : mobilization, supply, and the American war effort in World War II /
A decorated World War I veteran, Federal Judge Robert P. Patterson knew all too well the needs of soldiers on the battlefield. He was thus dismayed by America's lack of military preparedness when a second great war engulfed Europe in 1939--40. With the international crisis worsening, Patterson...
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Мова: | Англійська |
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Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press,
[2014]
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| Редагування: | First edition. |
| Серія: | Legacies of war.
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| Онлайн доступ: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.25494953 |
Зміст:
- Introduction: Robert Porter Patterson and World War II
- A nation without arms
- The slow beginning
- Airplanes take five years
- A changing nation
- Altitudinal goals
- An offensive begins
- Alaska, Australia, the Persian Gulf
- Assault in force
- The end in Europe
- Concentration east
- Epilogue: industry, science, war, and the future.