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John Phelan: “We won [World War II] because we overwhelmed them with…”

Featuring: John Phelan, Secretary of the Navy | National

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Fireside Chat with John C. Phelan

Published | Video Starts at 05:26

I think as it's a shipbuilding specific, we were the dominant shipbuilding country for a long time. And there's a great book, Freedom's Forge talks about how we won World War II. And in that book, We won [World War II] 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. But we overwhelmed them with numbers. (05:26–05:33)

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Asserts that the U.S. won World War II by producing a large quantity of military equipment.

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