Cassi Creek:
WWII was a demonstration of how important industrialization
had become in modern warfare. The
bombing campaigns against Germany and Japan were intended to destroy their
industrial capacities, rendering them unable to continue fighting effectively. The effect of urban destruction on the
citizens of the targeted nations, while overwhelmingly frightening, was not the
primary reason for the bombing campaigns.
The hardware losses to the combatant nations spiraled upward
at such a rate that even the U.S. industrial plants and resources were unable
to keep up with the demands for new and replacement weaponry without rationing
on the home front.
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