Immediately after the war, the demand for steel was furiously high. One-fifth of the entire U.s Navy fleet was constructed under the roof of a Bethlehem Steel plant. Steel ships were one of the mill’s most important contributions and built around 1, 127 ships for World War II. The large engines on Navy warships were constructed, in large part, by Bethlehem Steel. The steel mills supplied the United States military with a wide range of necessary war supplies including bomb casings, armor-piercing shells, gun forgings, airplane parts, and warships. About two years later, the employees had more than doubled. At the start of the war, the company had 13,055 employees. Companies like these were a crucial part of the success of the United States during World War II.
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Every other scrap of metal was used for the war effort.Ī company called Bethlehem Steel was an integral part of the war effort during World War II and was at the full operation from 1863 to 1995. During the period of the war, only 139 automobiles were made in the United States. In 1941, for example, the U.S produced about 3 million automobiles. The transition into wartime production, for example, saw a massive depletion of steel used for homeward bound purposes. By V-J Day, company Alcoa had produced 11,400,000,000 pounds of alumina. The industry churned out about 300,000 aircraft during the war years with 95,000 in a single year. A single tank requires about 18 tons of metal. It’s hard to say, but let’s look at some interesting numbers about the amount of steel that was required for the war. Another goal was also to convert materials like metal, which soldiers, sailors, and Marines would need. This was meant to turn American factories into manufacturing plants for weapons and military equipment. Roosevelt created the War Production Board.
Just a month after the attack, President Franklin D. Just before the bombs hit at Pearl Harbor, factories in the United States were dedicated to producing automobiles, large and small appliances, and children’s toys. The average citizen didn’t show much resistance when it came to doing every little bit for the soldiers. Because of the nature of the enemy and the fact that there were so many of the country’s young men (and many women) across the pond helping the war effort on the frontlines, people were largely united against the powers of Hitler, Mussolini, and Imperial Japan.
Americans, of course, obliged and were happy to do it. In fact, many advertisements and posters urged Americans to give up their unused metal in order to help ‘the boys.’ One such poster asked Americans to save the tin in their empty toothpaste and shave cream tubes. So much steel was needed to build tanks, ships, weapons, and aircraft during the Second World War that scrap metal was strictly rationed. Although, for the most part, Americans did not have to worry about bombs dropping overhead, they had their own ripple effects of the war back at home. The toll of the war was anything but easy on the people back on America’s shores. In only a few years, the Allied powers would master the art of war aircraft, tanks, and other heavy machinery that will help them wage the war against the Axis powers. When the second world war broke out, Germany had long been preparing itself with new machineries like tanks and artillery. Innovation and industrial production did not stop there, of course. Steel production had an incredible amount of influence on the war effort. In our previous blog, we traveled back in time to the early part of the 20th century, when the world learned what heavy weaponry and aircraft would come to change about warfare.
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