Comments by "Kenneth Dean Miller" (@kennethdeanmiller7324) on "The History and Development of the 5"/38 - Turns out you can take the sky from someone" video.

  1.  @pedrofelipefreitas2666  Yep, not only that, but also built enough planes for all of them & trained pilots to fly them & sailors & engineers to run the ships too. A logistical nightmare of a gigantic proportion!
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  2. Yep, unknowingly, the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor did all of the Free peoples of the world a favor. It's a real shame that those 2500 that died during that massacre had to die for the US to FINALLY really become involved. But the political state of the country didn't want to be involved in "Another European War" as they seen it at the time. But once we were attacked & thousands died & a lot of our warships were destroyed, anyone that was STILL ANTI-WAR kept their mouths shut because that would have seemed very UNPatriotic. AND, if it had been widely known what the Germans were doing to the Jews, I think most would not have been antiwar. And although the Japanese were killing Chinese on a massive scale too, I would guess that was not widely known by the middle class & lower class of people. I guess what I'm trying to say is respect for the UK & the free people's that joined with the UK 🇬🇧, & held the lines long enough for us Yanks to get involved. I'm sure back then the UK didn't count on having to stand alone against Germany, Japan & the Italians with no help coming from France. And I'm not trying to say the UK would have lost if the US had not got involved. However, because the US did get involved it made the Allies twice as strong. The only thing was, we had to train soldiers, sailors & pilots. We had to create numerous factories & train a lot of our females & elderly on running these factories. It wasn't just a few people in the US doing this. Our people came together then, more than ever before or since to ultimately do anything & everything we needed to do to help win the war. Although, in reality, invading the US would be a logistical nightmare for any country, I imagine that to a lot of us, invasion was a very real thing to be worried about. I'm not sure but I think that was when we developed the Coast Guard & the National Guard. And then after deciding we were going to be in the war, we still had to get with the Brits & establish a plan on what to do. First, second & third.
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