I think all of you are as much wrong as your as much right! It's quite common knowledge that what won WWII was the U.S. manufacturing. They were spitting out Liberty ships every few days, and they Germans could get enough torpedos in the ocean to stop them, let alone make a hit everytime they fired one. The same goes with the B17 & B24 bombers. They built more bombers than there were pilots to shoot them down. The automobile factories in the USA and the tank factories in Russia turned out tanks so fast that the Germans couldn't supply ammo fast enough to knock them out. So if you want to thank somebody, thank an old lady that used to work in a war plant, or a tool maker that was forced to stay back here to get the parts out the door. The samething holds true in the PTO. The Japanese had pretty good ships and planes at the start of the war, but could not replace them. We just kept filling up ship's holds as fast as they docked them. So my hat's off to those women that built B29's and B24's 24/7 without a whimper
gary

We think of the A bomb as a weapon, thus the term nuclear weapon. However, if you really think about it , the A bomb is a bomb, is a bomb ,is a bomb. Just like any other bomb it is dropped and it goes boom. A much bigger BOOM perhaps , but wouldn't it be considered more of a munition than a weapon? A rifle is a weapon. The ammo is not a weapon, it is a munition. So would any bomb be a munition or a weapon ? Not to seem argumentative.......just wondering. What do you think ? ................ ...........Al

What's in a name anyway ? Had someone coined the phrase munitions of mass destruction from the onset, they would probably be more correct than to say weapons of mass destruction. The world got used to calling (the bomb) a weapon and not a munition. But anyway, I still say that Rosey the Riveter won the war....... ............. Al......(edit) and by the way Jesse, I heard you guys in Georgia are gonna freeze your butts off this Sunday. Just got back from Warm Springs....got family there.