Although American industry had a powerful role in winning the war, what were the difficulties they had?

Answer 1

One difficulty was getting American troops up to par with the Germans (who'd been at war since 1939, and had been overtly preparing for war since 1935) and the Japanese (who'd been at war since 1931 and preparing for it long before that). Americans are not "naturally" a warlike people in the same way the Germans and Japanese are -- i.e., our military is not as honored a part of society as the German and Japanese are. Changing an entire generation into warriors was not an easy job.

A second difficulty is that our materials of war -- especially our armored fighting vehicles, our tanks and half-tracked armored personnel carriers, and our aircraft, at the beginning of the war -- were technologically inferior to those of the Germans and, to a lesser extent, the Japanese. Our ability to convert quickly to a war economy made all the difference: our undergunned and underarmored M4 Sherman tanks literally swarmed the heavier and better armed Panther and Tiger tanks. Our M3 halftracks, produced in massive quantities, got our soldiers to the battleline far quicker than the Germans could.

Our aircraft caught up with and surpassed the Japanese Mitsubishi Zero fighters and the German Messerschmitt Bf 109s and Focke-Wulf FW-190s, but if the Germans had been able to bring thier Me 262 jet fighters into mass production, even our P-51s and P-47s would not have been able to handle them.

Another difficulty was getting our men into the battlezones. Mass airlifts were not possible in the 1940's. Nearly all American soldiers and their equipment sailed over on ships, a trip fraught with danger from the normal hazards of the sea AND the submarine fleets of both the Germans and the Japanese.

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Answer 2

Producing a quality product

Answer 3

most of their problems centered around manpower and transportation. As stockpiles were consumed, it became materials.

Answer 4

no body had any money,