|
The US wasn't ready for WWII ether. in 1939 the US Navy's best fighter was a biplane while the Jappannesse where putting the finnishing touches on the Zero which was relaceing a monoplane fighter they allready had. the army was training new recrutes with trucks that had signs printed "Tank" hanging from them and wooden mock ups of machine guns the best tank in the army's inventory was the M2 it had 2 turrets and each one had a machine gun. It took almost 6 months of combat before Bewster Buffalo was recognised as an obsolete POS by the brass. and allmost 6 months longer to realise that the MK14 torpedoe was faulty. America has had a habit of being unprepared. look at the civil war Bull Run was a huge fistfight between 50,000 untrained troops too the point were troops that where merely green where the Ellet , Europe at the time was a sellers market for any type of gun or cannon not because The US goverment was trying to keep guns out of Rebel hands but The US needed those guns just as bad as The confederates did. Back to the orginal subject of WWI the US had been watching the fighting for 3 years but still didn't have a reasonable light machinegun even though the lewis gun was invented by an american we didn't have any reasonable Machine gun in fact. The only good weapons the US had availible when the war started were the colt M1911 and the springfield 1903. look at it between 1846 and 1951 the US military has not been ready for any war It has becalled upon to fight
|