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John Phelan: “Germany and Japan had much better technology, better tanks…”

Featuring: John Phelan, Secretary of the Navy | National

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Fireside Chat with John C. Phelan

Published | Video Starts at 05:35

And there's a great book, Freedom's Forge talks about how we won World War II. And in that book, we won because we overwhelmed them with numbers. We were actually the technologically inferior fighter. Germany and Japan had much better technology, better tanks, better missiles, better submarines, better planes [during World War II]. But we overwhelmed them with numbers. We have let them things hollow it out way too much. Now what's happened specifically in shipbuilding is when Covid hit, a number of workers left. (05:35–05:42)

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Asserts that Germany and Japan had superior military technology compared to the U.S. during World War II.

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